La gènesi de la Llei catalana de política lingüística (LPL) de 7 de gener de 1998: model per a la legislació lingüística a la Comunitat Europea

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The 1998 Language Policy Act (LPL) was passed with the intention of broadening the measures aimed at protecting and disseminating Catalan that were already partially provided for in the 1983 Language Normalization Act. That first law reestablished the public use of Catalan. The LPL, on the other hand, aims to promote the language in sectors that were not very given to its use, such as commerce, justice, advertising and labelling. The LPL cannot be understood without bearing in mind the social, institutional and legislative debate regarding the issue of language. The unanimous consensus of 1983, the fruit of a law that recommended action without imposing sanctions, was not achieved in the new law because its initially coercive character -- it provided for quotas and sanctions -- was not accepted by the Popular Party (Partit Popular). The Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC), on the other hand, demanded a greater degree of prominence for Catalan. The lang

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