“Lingue di minor diffusione e strategie di comunicazione televisiva: il panorama linguistico galiziano secondo la serie El desorden que dejas (2020)

Abstract
In recent years, we have witnessed an increasingly frequent use of a number
of lesser-used languages in productions that, due to their setting, require the
representation of a linguistic reality in which these languages are commonly
used.
This is the case, for example, of The Mess You Leave Behind (El desorden que
dejas), the first production of the Netflix platform, filmed entirely in the
Autonomous Community of Galicia, released on 11th December 2020. It is
an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Carlos Montero, winner of
the 2016 Primavera Prize and produced by Vaca films.
With its eight episodes, the series takes us to Novariz, an imaginary Galician
village, where a young woman, Raquel, arrives as a literature teacher, after the
suicide of the colleague who had preceded her, a detail that Raquel ignores
when she takes on the job.
By means of the analysis of the dialogues of the different characters, we will
see, firstly, the attempt to overcome the so-called standard Spanish thanks to
the use of the Galician language and, above all, the specific characteristics of
the Spanish language spoken in Galicia, to move on, in a second moment, to
the study of the current situation of the Galician language.