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Abstract: "This paper examines the position of some nineteenth-century Catalan grammars and dictionaries regarding the relationship between Catalan and Occitan and, in particular, the ideology that supports the idea that Catalan and Occitan are or were the same language. This ideology was called Limousinism (“llemosinisme”). We can distinguish four ideological positions: first, the so-called onomastic and traditional Limousinism; second, strict limousinism, or the belief that Catalan and Occitan are the same language and have a common origin; third, the use of Limousinism to defend linguistic secessionism; and fourth, the rejection of Limousinism and the unity of Catalan and Occitan. The article shows that all these positions have a glottopolitical, as well as a linguistic motivation; and that anti-Limousinism is the dominant ideology in Catalonia, while in the other Catalan- speaking areas Limousinist positions are more common". |
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