PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Duarte Collazo, Silvia
TI  - The Galician standard: reintegrationism vs. autonomism
DP  - 2014 Jun 1
TA  - Romanica Olomucensia
PG  - 1--13
VI  - 26
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/ro.2014.001
IS  - 18034136
AB  - The present article analyses in depth the two opposing ideological lines confronted in the normative debate of the Galician language since the first normative approval in 1982 until the present day: the autonomism and the reintegrationism. According to these two linguistic ideologies, the codification of Galician is focused on two quite different perspectives. While the autonomism conceives Galician as a regional language and therefore exclusively restrained to the Autonomous Community of Galicia, the reintegrationism conceives it as an international language and as part of the Portuguese linguistic diasystem, trespassing in this way the borders of the Spanish State and placing itself at the same level of the Portuguese and Brazilian variants. Regarded from this latter point of view, the Galician language avoids competing in its own natural linguistic system. In the present article we will study how the autonomist ideology aims to maintain Galician in a bilingual situation together with the Castilian, a bilingualism which leads inexorably to a per se diglossic situation which maintains Galician in a situation of continuous instability impeding the full normalization. The reintegrationist ideology, however, aims to gain autonomy and stability for the Portuguese spoken in Galicia, since it gains protection from the Portuguese language, one of the most spoken languages in the world.