Abstract

PEREIRO, Xerardo. Galician as part of the Galician-Portuguese cultural and linguistic system or why is Fernando Venâncio not right?. População e Sociedade [online]. 2023, n.40, pp.108-126.  Epub Jan 20, 2024. ISSN 0873-1861.  https://doi.org/10.52224/21845263/rev40a7.

Between the Galician-Portuguese linguistic and cultural continuum there is a lot of institutional noise (Torres Feijó and Samartim, 2018) that needs to be silenced. The noise is understood here as a failure in communication caused by a set of obstacles between Galicia and Portugal, which block the fluidity of the relationship and even prevent it (cf. Quiroga, 2016). Or from a complementary perspective, Galician identity is always called into question in Portugal (García González, 2012; Pazos-Justo, 2016, p. 9). However, as Manuel María said: "If we look at a map of the Iberian Peninsula, we can see that Galicia is part of its Atlantic side. Galicia is, as we say, the head of Portugal" (María, 2010, p. 14). My key argument in this text is that the Galician language and culture are part of the Galician-Portuguese linguistic and cultural system, and I will develop this integrationist culturalist perspective from a critical and dialectical dialogue with Fernando Venâncio's work entitled "Assim nasceu uma língua" .

Keywords : Galician-Portuguese Cultural Linguistic Continuum; Fernando Venâncio..

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