"Basque Language Revival and Popular Culture" by Jacqueline Urla

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Basque Language Revival and Popular Culture

Basque Cultural Studies (1999)

Jacqueline Urla, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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Abstract

This essay argues for the value of examining popular culture as a productive site for the expression of language play and humor in minority language communities. A study of the Basque language comic, Napartheid provides material for studying language mixing and parodic language play that challenge language domination.

Keywords

language revival,
parody,
Basque

Disciplines

Linguistic Anthropology and
Social and Cultural Anthropology

Publication Date

1999

Editor

W. Douglass, C. Urza, L. White and J. Zulaika

Publisher

Basque Studies Program

Series

Occasional Paper Series No. 5

ISBN

1-877802-03-4

Citation Information

Jacqueline Urla. "Basque Language Revival and Popular Culture" RenoBasque Cultural Studies (1999)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jacqueline_urla/18/