Spanish Language Norms

Topic 1: Previous Concepts

• The concepts of congruence, correction, and adequacy determine what is considered "speaking well."

Topic 2: The Standard Language

• Standard language is examined through its definition, definitive features and historical constitution.
• It explores if standard language is fixed and immovable with concepts of system, norm and use.
• Explores if standard language is the same in all Spanish-speaking countries through pluricentric conception of the norm of Spanish.

Topic 3: Common Confusions

• It is important to distinguish between what is correct and what is exemplary.

Topic 4: La Real Academia Española

• The Real Academia Española is one of the leading entities in the Spanish language.

Congurence, Correction and Adequacy

• Evaluation of a statement should not only consider its correction but also other aspects.
• Coseriu's levels: universal, historical, and discrusive
• Universal level of language includes all aspects and universal characteristics common to all speakers
• Semanticity, Alterity and Referentialization are key components of language on a universal level
• The designation or reference is the type of meaning associated to the designation of reference.
• The objects and external ideas, independent of each language, referenced by a single word or combination of words.
• The historical level includes all natural languages, such as Spanish, French, and the dialectal varieties.
• The characteristics of historical languages and varieties are not common to all and subject to historical evolution.
• The type of meaning at the historical level is the meaning of each tongue, found in dictionaries.
• The individual, or discourse level includes individual aspects and characteristics of communicative actions.
• Literature text with an individual discourse is seen in poetry
• The meaning of a concrete discourse can only be known if the context, sender and receiver is known
• Conformity can be called congruence with elocutional knowledge, clarity, coherence etc
• Conformity with idiomatic knowledge is correction
• Conformity with expressive knowledge is appropriate
• To "speak well" one must dominate and respect the three types of knowledge.

Defining "hablar bien" (speaking well)

• "Hablar bien" involves congruence, correctness, and appropriateness.
• Congruence of a text ajusts to the rules of logic.
• Correction adjusts to the norms of a determined language
• Adequacy adjusts a text to the communicative situation, circumstances and interlocutor
• One who dominates the grammatical rules of their language, but says things meaninglessly are idomatic but fall in elocution
• One who dominates a field of though and orders in ideas, but commits grammar errors has elocution but has lagunas of idiomatic.
• One can dominate the grammatical rules, but does not know how to redact a card of presentation
• They have idiomatic competence, but lack expressive competence.

Standard Language Definition and History

• The term dates back to the 18th century, reffering to the variety of English used by cultured people diatratically
• Spanish no longer possesses the nuance of meaning, so its applicable to all classes of social situations
• Traits constitute a linguistic ideal
• It is similar to prestigious customs of the cultured class
• Ample action domain unifies and is suprarregional.
• Promoted through teaching, the media, administration, science and literature
• Its constitution in exemplary norm is conventional not bound in linguistic criteria but socioeconomic or sociopolitical
• Superiority is not intrinsic but given its cohesion
• No coincides with geolect, it does not identify with someone in the form of speaker but an abstraction
• Not fixed or immovable instead a technical that is stable
• Admits plurality of norms and change in varieties
• Language varies more than its grammar.
• Coseriu stated words by individual uses Speak or use:
• A individual person on a personal creation
• Norm all that manifests regulations
• Constrictions individual or momentary
• System containing only the functional opposition a whole language that distintictive to permit communications
• These analysis steps assume as such in a concret act
• Anecdotal personal
• Distinctive if not in communication and functional The norm a shift towards the change of linguistic
• The term castigar meaning advice

Language Change

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• The language is by public so what they do
• "As the forest shed foliage to the decline of the year fall leaves more old"
• The term Crododrile
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• Standard varies a point the view the formation
• Variety was subjected a process of elaboration
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• Variation in lexical as possible
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• The one in other regions will not help unless one to not break a structure

Language Standardization

• Standardization consists in normative perscription and institutionalization directed by a authority
• Standard language is created through conscious deliberation.
• Most of the standard language that formed in Europe sprung from a need to ideologically align.
• The models come in from the selection to the places in the areas where they occur.
• A multilingualism was conceived the idea for for its
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• To establish standard in work to guarantee standards by the hand in that references

Castellano

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Dialectal Variation

• Arrinconamiento happened with the other dialects
• A standard to reduce the variation and of fix in the golden of the age
• One does of foundation of the RAe
• The others followed processes too
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• And what happens with such and their code
• For what will do.
• Dictionaries
• The meaning in certain cases depends on their local environment of a certain type and is such as those that it is

Liberal vs Conservative

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• Liberal tend all is for to that are in type way now the form is always has

Correct vs Exemplary

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Conclusions

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Confusions and the Real Academy of Spana

• It is important to understand the difference between exemplary and correct.
• Coseriu: two concepts in a common plane.
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