El occitano-gascón en el paisaje lingüístico de la Val d’Aran y Pau: Presencia, prestigio y convivencia en entornos plurilingües
Occitan-Gascon in the Linguistic Landscape of Val d’Aran and Pau: Presen-ce, Prestige and Coexistence in Multilingual Environments

Summary/Abstract: This work aims to make a contrastive analysis of the presence or absence, visibility or invisibility of Occitan-Gascon in the metropolitan areas of Pau, belonging to France, and Vielha, in the Val d’Aran, Catalonia. For this purpose, a photographic corpus was collected in 2023, which we then analyzed both quantitatively, in terms of the number of signs written in Occitan-Gascon or in other official languages of these territories (French, Spanish, Catalan), and qualitatively, in terms of the typology of the signs (whether they come from public authorities or private individuals), the number of languages that appear, their order of appearance on the signs and their communicative objectives. This documentary base allowed us to interpret in a contrastive way the effects of national, regional or local language policies in each of these spaces and to discuss the valorization (or not) of Occitan-Gascon. From this study, conclusions can be drawn about the situation of the regional language, its coexistence with other dominant languages in these areas and its presence in the territory.

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