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S0100 · spain_real_academia_dictionary · registry identity

Founding of Real Academia de la Lengua

Real Academia Española · ?
historical record independent3 occurrences across 3 books · load 9
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P20 — A standard written language — a 'grapholect' — differs in kind from any spoken dialect: it is a deliberately normalised, trans-local, his…
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1987 · Cultural Literacy
The founding and dictionary-making process of the Real Academia de la Lengua in 18th-century Spain.
direct The Real Academia de la Lengua established court Castilian as the permanent basis for Spanish instruction.
ch 3 · historical_example · cl:ch3_E21
Warrant (implicit): The long-term institutional adoption of a specific dialect's dictionary by a state school system establishes that dialect as the permanent national standard.
could fail ifPolitical decentralization or the rise of competing regional media can erode the 'permanent' status of a court-based standard despite its presence in schoolbooks.
2016 · Why Knowledge Matters
The ongoing role of the Royal Academy in Madrid in fixing and updating the standard Spanish dictionary.
direct Standard Spanish is globally updated and fixed by a specific two-volume dictionary from the Academy in Madrid.
ch 6 · international_comparison · wkm:ch6_E32
Warrant (implicit): The existence of a centralized linguistic authority in a major world language demonstrates that the language remains fixed and uniform across different global contexts.
could fail ifRegional dialects and colloquialisms in Latin America often diverge significantly from the Madrid Academy's standards, rendering the 'fixed' nature of the language a formality rather than a reality.
2022 · American Ethnicity
The creation of the Real Academia de la Lengua in Spain to distinguish 'correct words' from 'low' ones.
related Court Castilian was established as the dialect base of the Spanish national language and its dictionary remains the basis for instruction wherever Spanish is spoken.
ch 8 · historical_example · ae:ch8_E16
Raw source_reference strings seen

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  • Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española
  • Francis Storr, 'Academies', Encyclopedia Britannica