Language, Identity, and the Scriptorial Landscape in Québec and Catalonia*
Language, Identity, and the Scriptorial Landscape in Québec and Catalonia*
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魁北克和加泰罗尼亚的语言、身份和文字景观*
DOI：
10.1111/j.1931-0846.2003.tb00041.x
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发表时间：
2003
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2
通讯作者：
D. Gade
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作者：
D. Gade
两个小城市，魁北克省，和奥洛特，加泰罗尼亚，讨论在其国家背景下，以了解20世纪的演变，这方面的可见景观是脚本的性质：标志，横幅，涂鸦，并在公共视野中的铭文。在巴扎维尔，标志已经从双语法语和英语变成了法语。在奥洛特，他们在十年内从卡斯蒂利亚语变成了加泰罗尼亚语。特别是在奥洛特，由于其最近的镇压历史，单语风景剧本代表了一种抵抗行为。这两次变革都反映了强烈的文化团结意识，以及通过了旨在保护和促进各地区特征的主要基础的立法。一个寻求文化肯定的领土少数民族对语言的视觉效果如何将其与周围讲不同方言的大多数人区分开来很敏感。因此，符号或铭文上的语言具有象征意义，涉及微妙之处，并包含矛盾。作为文化景观的一个组成部分，剧本景观在过去和现在都有助于在有限的领土上传播民族认同。
Two small cities, Victoriaville, Québec, and Olot, Catalonia, are discussed in their national contexts to understand the twentieth‐century evolution of that aspect of the visible landscape that is scriptorial in character: the signs, banners, graffiti, and inscriptions in public view. In Victoriaville, signs have gone from bilingual French and English to French. In Olot, they changed within a decade from Castilian to Catalan. Especially in Olot, with its recent history of repression, the monolingual landscape script represents an act of resistance. Both transformations reflect a strong sense of cultural solidarity and the adoption of legislation designed to protect and promote the main basis of the identity of distinctive regions. A territorial minority seeking cultural affirmation is sensitive to how the visuality of language separates it from the surrounding majority that speaks a different vernacular. As such, the language on signs or inscriptions carries symbolic meaning, involves subtleties, and contains contradictions. The scriptorial landscape, one element of the cultural landscape, contributes to the communication of national identity in a bounded territory in the past and the present.