caa a22 4500 463241207 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-007-9064-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-007-9064-5 Paffey Darren Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK aut Policing the Spanish language debate: verbal hygiene and the Spanish language academy ( Real Academia Española ) [Elektronische Daten] [Darren Paffey] This article takes a contemporary, socio-political approach to the study of the Real Academia Española (RAE) and its role in Spanish language matters. I␣examine the Academy's contribution to current language debates and consider the language ideologies present in discussions of language standardisation. My investigation is framed by general and Spanish-specific works on language ideologies (e.g., Lippi-Green 1997; Schieffelin etal. 1998; Mar-Molinero 2004; Del Valle and Gabriel-Stheeman 2002). In particular, I examine how Academicians become ‘agents' of institutional language ideologies [‘verbal hygienists' in Cameron's (1995) terms] by reinforcing a particular definition of the Spanish language. I critically analyse a selection of press articles (El País, ABC) and Academy publications which discuss the role, use and current state of the language. These provide evidence that language ideological debates are widespread in Spanish news media, and that the RAE takes the lead, as part of its panhispanic language policy. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Language ideology/-ies nationallicence Panhispanic language policy nationallicence Press analysis nationallicence Language academies nationallicence Real Academia Española nationallicence Spain nationallicence Spanish nationallicence Standardisation nationallicence DPD : Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts) nationallicence RAE : Real Academia Española (Spanish Language Academy) nationallicence Language Policy Springer Netherlands 6/3-4(2007-11-01), 313-332 1568-4555 6:3-4<313 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9064-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9064-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Paffey Darren Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Springer Netherlands 6/3-4(2007-11-01), 313-332 1568-4555 6:3-4<313 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer