Publications

Lingua galega: normalidade e conflicto takes readers on a journey back in time to the origins of the Galician language. Xosé Ramón Freixeiro Mato’s chronicle of the historical evolution of Galician illustrates the language’s persistence down through the centuries as a uniting force within the country, to dispel once and for all the social stereotypes that have long held back the process of linguistic normalisation in Galicia and its progress as a nation.

The duality of Galicia’s historical experience is captured well by the book’s subtitle, ‘Normality and Conflict’, in a study that explores both the glory days of the language during the Middle Ages, and the long period from the 16th century on when it was subjected to linguistic dominion by a foreign power in its own land.