Language, social identities and inequalities in Catalonia In brief Date - 3 March 2025Venue - Screening Room G.04, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Marina Massaguer Comes (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Title - Language, social identities and inequalities in Catalonia About the eventThis talk will focus on how the adoption (or non-adoption) of local languages by individuals who settle in a place conditions their processes of economic, social and symbolic capitalisation and decapitalisation, and the loss of value of dominant languages when they enter into competition with minority languages in the process of normalisation.This event is sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull, and the lecture will be in English.About the speakerDr Marina Massaguer holds a degree in Catalan Philology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She was an associate lecturer at Rovira i Virgili University.As a member of the Institut Ramon Llull, she also worked as a lecturer in Catalan language and literature at the University of Oxford. She has researched linguistic practices and ideologies in various groups, such as the gypsy community in the old quarter of Tarragona and popular culture groups in Barcelona.She is a member of the Centre for Research in Sociolinguistics and Communication at the University of Barcelona (CUSC-UB), where she has coordinated, among others, studies on language use among young people, on the use of Catalan on social networks and on the learning and adoption of Catalan among adults. She is currently working as a language policy advisor at the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya.How to attendThis event is free to attend, and open to all.Are you interested in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies?Founded in 1919, LLC has one of the best-established departments of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SPLAS) in the UK, offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including teaching and supervision in Basque, Catalan, Latin American, Portuguese and Spanish studies. Find out more about SPLAS at Edinburgh Mar 03 2025 17.30 - 18.30 Language, social identities and inequalities in Catalonia An in-person lecture by Dr Marina Massaguer Comes (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) examining the cultural place of language within intersectional identities in Catalonia. Screening Room G.04 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Language, social identities and inequalities in Catalonia In brief Date - 3 March 2025Venue - Screening Room G.04, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Marina Massaguer Comes (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Title - Language, social identities and inequalities in Catalonia About the eventThis talk will focus on how the adoption (or non-adoption) of local languages by individuals who settle in a place conditions their processes of economic, social and symbolic capitalisation and decapitalisation, and the loss of value of dominant languages when they enter into competition with minority languages in the process of normalisation.This event is sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull, and the lecture will be in English.About the speakerDr Marina Massaguer holds a degree in Catalan Philology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She was an associate lecturer at Rovira i Virgili University.As a member of the Institut Ramon Llull, she also worked as a lecturer in Catalan language and literature at the University of Oxford. She has researched linguistic practices and ideologies in various groups, such as the gypsy community in the old quarter of Tarragona and popular culture groups in Barcelona.She is a member of the Centre for Research in Sociolinguistics and Communication at the University of Barcelona (CUSC-UB), where she has coordinated, among others, studies on language use among young people, on the use of Catalan on social networks and on the learning and adoption of Catalan among adults. She is currently working as a language policy advisor at the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya.How to attendThis event is free to attend, and open to all.Are you interested in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies?Founded in 1919, LLC has one of the best-established departments of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SPLAS) in the UK, offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including teaching and supervision in Basque, Catalan, Latin American, Portuguese and Spanish studies. Find out more about SPLAS at Edinburgh Mar 03 2025 17.30 - 18.30 Language, social identities and inequalities in Catalonia An in-person lecture by Dr Marina Massaguer Comes (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) examining the cultural place of language within intersectional identities in Catalonia. Screening Room G.04 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Mar 03 2025 17.30 - 18.30 Language, social identities and inequalities in Catalonia An in-person lecture by Dr Marina Massaguer Comes (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) examining the cultural place of language within intersectional identities in Catalonia.
