摘要：Purist attitudes pervade a great number of studies in Galician linguistics, given that most of them are aimed to standardization and corpus planning. Concepts such as “authenticity” and “language quality” have been employed in recent papers, but these concepts were neither defined nor justified in these studies. In this paper I will argue that “authenticity” and “language quality” are not linguistic concepts; they are based instead on sociological and ideological attitudes. Nevertheless I will argue that puristic attitudes in Standard Galician may be legitimate in the process of codification of the standard language, and in the elaboration of new functional varieties, but the sources of legitimacy should be clearly defined and discussed. I will propose that purism in current Galician shall be based on widely shared attitudes and beliefs concerning language, such as the need to maintain a Galician standard language clearly distinguishable from Spanish and the convenience of bringing it closer to Portuguese, unless this does not cohere with the linguistic characteristics of Galician. With these criteria, linguists’ actions could have some impact on public linguistic usages if they aim the elaboration of linguistic models and resources for some spheres of public communication; its effects will be scarce, or even negative, instead, if linguists content themselves with criticizing some linguistic usages.
关键词：Purism;authenticity;language quality;languages attitudes;language ideology;language planning;Purismo;autenticidade;calidade da lingua;actitudes lingüísticas;ideoloxía lingüística;planificación lingüística
