L'anàlisi dels immigrants d'àrea lingüística davant una llengua en procés de normalització. El cas dels afiliats i les afiliades a la CONC (Comissió Obrera Nacional de Catalunya) davant la llengua catalana

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Focused on Catalonia and the Catalan language, the present study analyzes attitudes as the element that is placed in the middle of, and has a bearing upon, the social and historical context, the command of a language, and the linguistic behavior of a given community. Thus, what the author is after are the social elements that explain the different linguistic attitudes adopted vis-à-vis a language undergoing a process of normalization. The study narrows down to the group of people affiliated to the organization Comisión Obrera Nacional de Cataluña in its Badalona headquarters, because it comprises and represents both a group that has experienced a process of linguistic immigration (change of residence within one country with a change in language area) and a group that has not experienced this process. After outlining the starting hypotheses and describing the methodology being used, as well as the population under study (divided into four different types according to language practice), the analysis of the social use of Catalan, of the different positions (agreement or disagreement on the normalization process), and of attitudes, are described. The information obtained shows two different attitudes when faced with the adoption of a second language, that are recurrent and present in all four types, albeit with differences of degree and intensity. The first one, a pragmatic and utilitarian attitude, is based on the necessity to know Catalan, or lack of it, and on the usefulness, or not, of the Catalan language in professional and social relations. The second one, an ideological attitude, is derived from a socio-political view of reality and supports a respectful attitude towards the new culture and community. According to the author, there is an indifferent attitude towards Catalan that implies that institutional intervention in the sphere of language normalization does not ensure the future of the language in the long run.