Common language and symbology in the XVIIIth century: Majorca during Juan Díaz de la Guerra episcopacy (1772-1777)

Authors

  • Rosa Calafat Vila Universidad de les Illes Balears (UIB)-Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad (IEHM)
Keywords: Language usages, Juan Díaz de la Guerra, The cult of Ramon Llull

Abstract

The analysis of written story about man and his doings within society should not be free from linguistic events, since words and their symbology, or cultural representation, constitute the instrument that man uses, as political being, in order to set up limits and draw up borders, thus drawing his social idiosyncrasies. For this reason, the present paper deals with the analysis of a cultural phenomenon; the symbology in the cult of Beat Ramon Llull, the controversy arisen from its prohibition in Majorca during Juan Díaz de la Guerra episcopacy, besides a linguistic fact: the change in the language uses of Catalan and Latin in favour of Castilian in the XVIIIth Century Majorca, all this within the framework of the enlightened Europe, and Spain in the times of Carlos III.

The present study reflects the struggle between two powers and two cultures

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Author Biography

Rosa Calafat Vila, Universidad de les Illes Balears (UIB)-Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad (IEHM)

Profesora Titular de Universidad. Miembro del Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad (IEHM). Universidad de les Illes Balears.

Líneas de investigación: Pragmática textual. Segunda oralidad. Sociolingüística Histórica.

Published
03-12-2015
How to Cite
Calafat Vila, R. (2015). Common language and symbology in the XVIIIth century: Majorca during Juan Díaz de la Guerra episcopacy (1772-1777). Estudios Románicos, 24, 101–113. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/estudiosromanicos/article/view/245341