Hizkuntza-praktikak hiri-mundu eta mundu hirietan (XIX. Jagon jardunaldia: euskararen biziberritzea Euskal Herriko hiriburuetan)

Abstract

In these times when the appearance and structures of cities are changing, the city life-style is spreading everywhere. Concepts like the post-urban era remind us that the hegemony of urban life is accompanied by the loss of certain features of the classical city form. In this context the importance the city has had in the construction of the culture of nation-states and common linguistic choreography is stressed and the effect of those processes on the Basque language analyzed. In the modern period Basque has been expelled from physical and symbolic city space and explained and understood from the logic of a rural paradigm, but since most Basques are nowadays city-dwellers, paradigm change must be sought in word and deed, so that Basque can have a meaning and a place in this hypermodern urban life-style.