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Chapter 15. Research on educational sociolinguistics in the Catalan-speaking area

  • F. Xavier Moreno Vila
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Catalan Sociolinguistics
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Abstract

This article starts with a definition of the field and the identification of the main agents that play a social role in language-in-education policies, and then moves to review the evolution and the state of the art of educational sociolinguistics research in the Catalan-speaking territories. The article surveys the main theoretical and applied debates during the Republican period in the 1930’s, the controversies about language and education in the late period of Francoist dictatorship, the many challenges associated with the definition of a school language model in the early decades of the autonomy between the 1970’s and the 1980’s, the development of a plurality of research studies connected, among others, with sociological and ethnographic perspectives, and the growing role of linguistic and cultural diversity in the first two decades of the 21st century. The article ends with a critical balance of achievement and what-to-does in the field.

Abstract

This article starts with a definition of the field and the identification of the main agents that play a social role in language-in-education policies, and then moves to review the evolution and the state of the art of educational sociolinguistics research in the Catalan-speaking territories. The article surveys the main theoretical and applied debates during the Republican period in the 1930’s, the controversies about language and education in the late period of Francoist dictatorship, the many challenges associated with the definition of a school language model in the early decades of the autonomy between the 1970’s and the 1980’s, the development of a plurality of research studies connected, among others, with sociological and ethnographic perspectives, and the growing role of linguistic and cultural diversity in the first two decades of the 21st century. The article ends with a critical balance of achievement and what-to-does in the field.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. Chapter 1. Catalan sociolinguistics 1
  5. Chapter 2. History of the group GCS/ASOLC/SOCS 15
  6. Chapter 3. Linguistic ecology 29
  7. Chapter 4. For a prospective sociology of language 39
  8. Chapter 5. Is there a social history of the Catalan language? 55
  9. Chapter 6. Research on language codification 67
  10. Chapter 7. The process of normalising Catalan in the media 93
  11. Chapter 8. The (limited) contribution of Catalan political science to Catalan sociolinguistics 107
  12. Chapter 9. Forty years of language policy in Catalonia (1980–2020) 119
  13. Chapter 10. From normalisation to sustainability 139
  14. Chapter 11. Language law in the Catalan domain 159
  15. Chapter 12. The economics of language 173
  16. Chapter 13. Demolinguistics in Catalan-speaking territories 183
  17. Chapter 14. The linguistic transmission of Catalan 195
  18. Chapter 15. Research on educational sociolinguistics in the Catalan-speaking area 207
  19. Chapter 16. Language and social psychology research in Catalan sociolinguistics 245
  20. Chapter 17. Linguistic anthropology 261
  21. Chapter 18. New speakers 275
  22. Chapter 19. Pragmatics and discourse analysis 297
  23. Chapter 20. The kaleidoscopic universe of the sociolinguistics of variation in the Catalan language 313
  24. Index 331
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.32.15vil

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. Chapter 1. Catalan sociolinguistics 1
  5. Chapter 2. History of the group GCS/ASOLC/SOCS 15
  6. Chapter 3. Linguistic ecology 29
  7. Chapter 4. For a prospective sociology of language 39
  8. Chapter 5. Is there a social history of the Catalan language? 55
  9. Chapter 6. Research on language codification 67
  10. Chapter 7. The process of normalising Catalan in the media 93
  11. Chapter 8. The (limited) contribution of Catalan political science to Catalan sociolinguistics 107
  12. Chapter 9. Forty years of language policy in Catalonia (1980–2020) 119
  13. Chapter 10. From normalisation to sustainability 139
  14. Chapter 11. Language law in the Catalan domain 159
  15. Chapter 12. The economics of language 173
  16. Chapter 13. Demolinguistics in Catalan-speaking territories 183
  17. Chapter 14. The linguistic transmission of Catalan 195
  18. Chapter 15. Research on educational sociolinguistics in the Catalan-speaking area 207
  19. Chapter 16. Language and social psychology research in Catalan sociolinguistics 245
  20. Chapter 17. Linguistic anthropology 261
  21. Chapter 18. New speakers 275
  22. Chapter 19. Pragmatics and discourse analysis 297
  23. Chapter 20. The kaleidoscopic universe of the sociolinguistics of variation in the Catalan language 313
  24. Index 331
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