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Abstract: The Tortosa diocese spans a geographical area where the autoctonous dialectal variety — called tortosí — is subject to pressures from different linguistic models.The aim of this article is to shed light on the historical processes of socio-political dynamics that have led to the linguistic breakup of this area of reference. The article also assesses formal models of local narrators from the early twentieth-century.The final aim is to show the correlation between the demand for a specific linguistic treatment in the formal dialectal linguistic variety and the dominant identity dynamics in the area.Key words: sociolinguistics, corpus planning, linguistic model, literary language, identity.

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Abstract: A study of the journalistic controversies in 1908 and 1909 about the literary language of Valencian writers. The participation of outstanding men of letters and the discursive mechanism of the controversy give to this fact an interest that goes beyond its value as a mere sociolinguistic document.