Aspectes legals i institucionals de la política i la planificació lingüístiques a les universitats en què és oficial la llengua catalana

Resum

This article presents the situation of the universities located within the Catalan language area regarding the use of languages. Particularly, it deals with the regulations and institutional framework with which they have equipped themselves over the last 12 years in pursuit of their goals of linguistic normalization, as manifested and promoted by their respective statutes. All the universities in the study included the precepts of the autochthonous and official status of Catalan in their normative texts, thus following the line laid down by higher legal texts and in some cases even attempting to surpass the limits of the devolutionary statutes of autonomy in their textual content and legal implications. On the basis of the university statutes, posts and organizational subdivisions have been set up to deal with the language issue, and produce normative or planning documents. These documents include plans for linguistic normalization, regulations concerning language use, and agreements on the establishment of a linguistic profile for appointments, although not all the universities studied possess documents of this sort. Following an account of the legal and institutional frameworks of language policy in universities, the author focuses on its areas of application, describing the stage reached at present and the planned future steps in the complex process of linguistic normalization at the three university levels: students, administration and service staff, and academic staff. In addition to establishing measures such as linguistic competence or the language profile of teaching posts, in order to guarantee the habitual use of Catalan in both administration and tuition, it is necessary to define a horizon of linguistic normality based on the broadest possible consensus.