Gisele FERNANDEZ LAZARO    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2025/05/25
Presentation Theme	The Legal Status of the Asturian Language and the Description of Its Written Discursive Products in Relation to Various Sociocultural Spheres of Communication
Conference	37th CANELA International Congress
Promoters	Academic Confederation of Japan, Spain and Latin America
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Country	Japan
Venue	University of the Ryukyus
Holding period	2025/05/23～2025/05/25
Details	Since the 1978 Constitution and Spain’s process of autonomous decentralization, the legal and social recognition of Asturian has progressively increased. The Statute of Autonomy of Asturias (1981) establishes its protection and promotion, and Law 1/1998 encourages its use in education, the media, and respect for its variants, even though it is not yet an official language. Its presence in the education system has grown significantly, with wide implementation in secondary and upper-secondary education. At the same time, Asturian has entered an expansive phase in social and cultural domains, particularly in its written form. This paper analyzes legal discourse based on Bernstein’s distinction between instructional and regulative discourse and examines written Asturian from a sociocultural perspective.
URL for researchmap	https://www.canela.org.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Programa-del-XXXVII-Congreso-Internacional-CANELA.pdf