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In the 15th and 16th centuries a number of works were written not only to exalt and codify some of the Romance languages, but also to support their literary cultivation in order to improve and dignify them. This goal of literary improvement represents the will to control and to …

This thesis explores the nature and the mechanism of change of language prestige and language attitudes in two neighbouring languages: Occitan and Catalan. These two Romance minority languages show great similarities in their early external history and striking differences in th…