Lingua e sociedade en Galicia

The article provides a wide review on the social situation of Galician language, beginning with a brief history of its contact with the Spanish and specially focusing on sociolinguistic changes of last decades, after its officialization as “own language” of Galician Autonomous Community. The work presents and analyses statistical data on the more relevant sociolinguistic and social variables (initial language, linguistic competence, usual language), presents a synthesis of the standardization process and comments on the normative controversies and their social effects, the diversity of practices and the representations that emerged as consequence of the contact with the Spanish in this complex scenario of political interventions on the status and corpus of Galician language.