Date of Award

Spring 4-20-2012

Document Type

Open Access Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Language and Literature

Second Department

Linguistics

First Thesis Reader

Thierry Boucquey

Second Thesis Reader

Marina Pérez de Mendiola

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© 2012 Eva Valenti

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Abstract

This thesis analyzes the sociolinguistic situations in postcolonial Latin America and francophone North Africa (the Maghreb) through a comparative lens. Specifically, it examines the ways in which Spain and France’s differing colonial agendas and language ideologies affected the relationships between colonizer and colonized, and, by extension, the role that Spanish and French play(ed) in these regions after decolonization. Finally, it explores how Spain and France’s contemporary discourses frame colonial participation in the two languages’ development, and the psychological effects these ideologies have had on the formerly colonized.


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