In Their Own Words: El dret a decidir and el procés
摘要
This chapter documents and analyzes discourse tropes in Spanish and Catalan that reproduce contemporary struggles for social justice and Catalan self-determination. Vann provides orthographic transcriptions and English translations of future-building, performative discourses that marshal emergent coding, translanguaging, chrononyms, cultural mythologies, discursive memory, and metalinguistic awareness in patterned ways of doing being Catalan. “El dret a decidir” tropes frame Catalonia’s self-determination as a matter of human rights subject to international law by treating Catalans as a people, mobilizing community values and beliefs independently of language ideology. “El procés” tropes foster social transformation through verbal art that employs rhetorical devices, acts of identity, and globalizing discourse patterns, painting Catalonia as a demos mature enough to decide its own political future. Within participants’ contemporary communicative ecologies, these tropes represent translocalizing discourses rooted in generational entelechy and habitus.