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October 30, 2024
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THE PLURICENTRISM OF CATALAN IN THE MAIN AUTOMATIC SPELL-CHECKERS AND TRANSLATION TOOLS

Publicated to: Revista de Llengua i Dret. (71): 208-222 - 2019-06-01 (71), DOI: 10.2436/rld.i71.2019.3229

Authors:

Mas Castells, Josep Angel
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Linguist Aplicada - Author

Abstract

Automatic spell-checkers and translation tools provide an excellent support for language use in the digital world at a time when written communication channels prevail. For pluricentric and minority languages such as Catalan, the way in which spelling and grammar tools handle the linguistic variation permitted by linguistic standards (the distinct variants represented by the three main parastandards of Catalan) can have a decisive impact on the perceived unity of the language and how secure its speakers feel in its usage, particularly those with little understanding of language issues. The present study analyses the aforementioned handling of linguistic variation, taking into account (1) the way programmes choose to present Catalan (from amongst the language options available) and (2) the effective management of linguistic variants, which can range from just one (an option more restrictive than the legislation) to a reflection of the same polymorphism that the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC) or the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL) may organise in terms of parastandards, with highly varied results.
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Keywords

Automatic correctionAutomatic translationLinguistic variationName of the languagePluricentricity

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Revista de Llengua i Dret due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2019, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Linguistics and Language.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-02:

  • Scopus: 3
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Mas Castells, Josep Angel) and Last Author (Mas Castells, Josep Angel).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Mas Castells, Josep Angel.

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