Eva Codó
Biographic Data
| ID | 163537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Codó |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Codó |
| SIGNATURE | CODÓ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0884-6807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘It's Necessary to Step Outside the Furrow’
In this interview Emili Boix‐Fuster, one of the most prominent figures of post‐Francoist Catalan sociolinguistics, reflects on his work and academic trajectory as well as on the contribution of Catalan sociolinguistics to minoritized language scholarship and language revitalization efforts in Catalonia. The interview begins with a discussion of how his upbringing and the sociopolitical climate of his young adult years sparked his interest in soci…
‘Our family’ as discursive and biographical space
In this paper we aim to articulate an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of multilingual families that draws upon and transcends existing theorisations in the fields of language socialisation and family language policy. We understand family as a discursive space, where members negotiate not only what counts as valid knowledge, that is, the language repertoires that matter to them, but also who they are, the social relations they esta…
Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain
This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews conducted in Barcelona, this paper explores participant perceptions around L2 English and accent. The res…
Localising international schools in multilingual Switzerland
Published online: 07 May 2024
On close reading and slow writing [Multilingua]
In an academic world in the throes of the audit culture, there is mileage in proposals that call for a reduction of research output. But while such a reduction is defensible on principle, and, indeed, a crucial measure to go against excessive output requirements, we are not sure it guarantees superior scholarship. In this commentary, we will suggest that calls for academic degrowth overlook the room for manoeuvre academics already have or should …
The dilemmas of experimental CLIL in Catalonia
In the early twenty-first century Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) emerged as a distinctively European pedagogy for raising additional language competence. Although CLIL scholarship has been abundant and has taken many different directions, there is a dearth of ethnographic research to shed light on the situated ambivalences of CLIL policymaking. This paper aims to fill the existing gap by analysing in detail the complex interlocki…
The value(s) of English as global linguistic capital
Theorists of linguistic justice tend to assume that English (particularly its native varieties) has paramount and stable value as a global communicative tool. From this alleged value they identify several injustices for non-native speakers, like unequal opportunities and lower dignity, related to the instrumental and identity-related values of languages. In this article we challenge assumptions about the real-life value of English by engaging in …
A plus for our students’
Mandarin Chinese is the fastest growing foreign language by number of students in the world [Ding and Saunders 2006. “Talking up China: An Analysis of China’s Rising Cultural Power and Global Promotion of the Chinese Language.” East Asia 23 (2): 3–33], but little is known about how it is taking hold in compulsory education in different countries. This paper examines the institutionalisation of Mandarin in an elite school located near Barcelona, S…
English language assistants in the 21st century
Although the figure of the English language assistant (ELA) dates back a long while, its current popularity is unprecedented in some areas of the world. Such is the case of Spain, where the goal of raising English standards among the younger generations has become a national obsession. Using critical ethnographic methods, this paper examines the experience of three British LAs placed in secondary schools in Barcelona. It draws on a focused case s…
Teaching the sociolinguistics of heteroglossia
OBRA RESSENYADA: Florian COULMAS, An Introduction to Multilingualism: Language in a Changing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 -- Marilyn MARTIN-JONES and Deirdre MARTIN, Researching Multilingualism: Critical and Ethnographic Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2017
The intersection of global mobility, lifestyle and ELT work
This paper examines the intersection of one form of contemporary mobility, i.e. lifestyle mobility, with the ELT industry. It draws on the discursive analysis of a small corpus of life story data produced by native English language teachers of different ages residing in Barcelona. Through their own personal and professional accounts and rationales, it seeks to comprehend how they construct their work experiences in the light of previous professio…
Lifestyle residents in Barcelona
The popularization of lifestyle migration epitomizes the individualization of contemporary lives, and the centrality of travel and spatial relocation in people's aspirational or real life projects. This article examines the processes of sociolinguistic relocation of "lifestylers" in the polylingual city of Barcelona through the lens of their embracing or rejection of Catalan, the non-state, local co-official language. It aims to decipher to what …
Language-mediated services for migrants
This chapter focuses on the second type of services, that is, those constituted by the migrant experience, and it adopts a general perspective on them linked to the analysis of language ideologies and practices. This has two consequences. First, it does not focus exclusively on language services, that is, on the institutional provision of translation, mediation, or interpreting in migrant languages, but on how these services shape access to resou…
CLIL, unequal working conditions and neoliberal subjectivities in a state secondary school
Langue et insertion professionnelle de migrants africains à Barcelone
Cet article examine les processus d'insertion professionnelle d'un groupe de cinq jeunes migrants africains vivant dans la région métropolitaine de Barcelone (Catalogne, Espagne) dans la perspective du rôle et de la valeur de leur répertoire multilingue. Relatant un engagement ethnographique à long terme avec ces cinq personnes, cet article présente leurs trajectoires personnelles et professionnelles, et analyse les facteurs qui ont contribué à l…
Multilingual discursive practices and processes of social change in globalising institutional spaces
This special issue aims to study multilingualism in relation to contemporary processes of transformation of institutional spaces.Our focus is on the ways in which multilingual
Shifting discourses of migrant incorporation at a time of crisis
In this article, we investigate the discursive transformations that occurred at a migrant-support non-governmental organisation (NGO) located in the outskirts of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and how they intersect with broader sociopolitical and economic processes. In particular, we focus on the revamping of the key notions of language and labour in the institutional imagination of migrant incorporation processes. Our data was collected over the …
Deskilling and delanguaging African migrants in Barcelona
This article analyses the labour and social trajectories of seven multilingual and well-educated young men from Africa in the Barcelona area (Catalonia, Spain) over a 5-year period. Our data consist of life history interviews combined with ethnographic observations in a settlement non-governmental organisation (NGO). We adopt a critical sociolinguistic perspective on language and mobility which underlines the time–space dimension of migrants' emp…
Hacer sociolingüística etnográfica en un mundo cambiante
Este volumen reúne un grupo de trabajos de jóvenes sociolingüistas del mundo hispano que reflexionan, a través de su experiencia investigadora, sobre la metodología etnográfica, sus retos y confines epistemológicos, así como la configuración de nuevas posibilidades y formas de investigación para el estudio situado de los usos lingüísticos en los contextos plurilingües y multiculturales del mundo actual. Si bien se trata de seis artículos con temá…
Constructing inequality in multilingual classrooms Luisa Martín Rojo (2010) Berlin
The intercultural dynamics of multicultural working
The intercultural dynamics of multicultural working, edited by Manuela Guilherme, Evelyne Glaser and Maria del Carmen Mendez-Garcia, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2010, 264 pp., £63.96 (hardback)
Ideologies and practices of multilingualism in bureaucratic and legal advice encounters
The increasing growth of foreign immigration to Spain has changed the communicative reality of various types of institutions. Civil servants, doctors, teachers, social workers and all sorts of service providers face new communicative challenges in their daily professional practice. The changing face and voice of their clientele calls into question habitualised forms of service delivery based on the homogeneity of practices and worldviews (Moyer a…
Regimenting discourse, controlling bodies
This article examines, from a critical and ethnographic sociolinguistic perspective, the socio-discursive practices unfolding at the information desk of a Spanish immigration office in Barcelona. Drawing on a corpus of ethnographic materials and interactional data, the article discusses why frontline communication became constituted as it did, what practical routines and ideological considerations grounded it, and how multiple social and institut…
Immigration and Bureaucratic Control
This original study looks at language practices in a government agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to transnational migrants in Spain. Drawing on a unique corpus of naturally-occurring verbal interactions between state officials and migrant petitioners as well as ethnographic materials and interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion. Th…
Plurilinguisme et promotion d'une langue minoritaire
Dans la Catalogne contemporaine, l'école fait face aux défis de gérer le plurilinguisme croissant de ses élèves, satisfaire les demandes sociales d'apprentissage de langues et de répondre à sa mission historique de transmission de la langue catalane. Nous explorons les discours qui circulent dans le monde éducatif catalan. Notre approche théorique essaye de combiner les postulats de l'anthropologie linguistique et de la sociolinguistique qualitat…
The intersection of global mobility, lifestyle and ELT work
This paper examines the intersection of one form of contemporary mobility, i.e. lifestyle mobility, with the ELT industry. It draws on the discursive analysis of a small corpus of life story data produced by native English language teachers of different ages residing in Barcelona. Through their own personal and professional accounts and rationales, it seeks to comprehend how they construct their work experiences in the light of previous professio…
Deskilling and delanguaging African migrants in Barcelona
This article analyses the labour and social trajectories of seven multilingual and well-educated young men from Africa in the Barcelona area (Catalonia, Spain) over a 5-year period. Our data consist of life history interviews combined with ethnographic observations in a settlement non-governmental organisation (NGO). We adopt a critical sociolinguistic perspective on language and mobility which underlines the time–space dimension of migrants' emp…
CLIL, unequal working conditions and neoliberal subjectivities in a state secondary school
Shifting discourses of migrant incorporation at a time of crisis
In this article, we investigate the discursive transformations that occurred at a migrant-support non-governmental organisation (NGO) located in the outskirts of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and how they intersect with broader sociopolitical and economic processes. In particular, we focus on the revamping of the key notions of language and labour in the institutional imagination of migrant incorporation processes. Our data was collected over the …
Ideologies and practices of multilingualism in bureaucratic and legal advice encounters
The increasing growth of foreign immigration to Spain has changed the communicative reality of various types of institutions. Civil servants, doctors, teachers, social workers and all sorts of service providers face new communicative challenges in their daily professional practice. The changing face and voice of their clientele calls into question habitualised forms of service delivery based on the homogeneity of practices and worldviews (Moyer a…
A plus for our students’
Mandarin Chinese is the fastest growing foreign language by number of students in the world [Ding and Saunders 2006. “Talking up China: An Analysis of China’s Rising Cultural Power and Global Promotion of the Chinese Language.” East Asia 23 (2): 3–33], but little is known about how it is taking hold in compulsory education in different countries. This paper examines the institutionalisation of Mandarin in an elite school located near Barcelona, S…
Regimenting discourse, controlling bodies
This article examines, from a critical and ethnographic sociolinguistic perspective, the socio-discursive practices unfolding at the information desk of a Spanish immigration office in Barcelona. Drawing on a corpus of ethnographic materials and interactional data, the article discusses why frontline communication became constituted as it did, what practical routines and ideological considerations grounded it, and how multiple social and institut…
Multilingual discursive practices and processes of social change in globalising institutional spaces
This special issue aims to study multilingualism in relation to contemporary processes of transformation of institutional spaces.Our focus is on the ways in which multilingual
Plurilinguisme et promotion d'une langue minoritaire
Dans la Catalogne contemporaine, l'école fait face aux défis de gérer le plurilinguisme croissant de ses élèves, satisfaire les demandes sociales d'apprentissage de langues et de répondre à sa mission historique de transmission de la langue catalane. Nous explorons les discours qui circulent dans le monde éducatif catalan. Notre approche théorique essaye de combiner les postulats de l'anthropologie linguistique et de la sociolinguistique qualitat…
Localising international schools in multilingual Switzerland
Published online: 07 May 2024
The value(s) of English as global linguistic capital
Theorists of linguistic justice tend to assume that English (particularly its native varieties) has paramount and stable value as a global communicative tool. From this alleged value they identify several injustices for non-native speakers, like unequal opportunities and lower dignity, related to the instrumental and identity-related values of languages. In this article we challenge assumptions about the real-life value of English by engaging in …
English language assistants in the 21st century
Although the figure of the English language assistant (ELA) dates back a long while, its current popularity is unprecedented in some areas of the world. Such is the case of Spain, where the goal of raising English standards among the younger generations has become a national obsession. Using critical ethnographic methods, this paper examines the experience of three British LAs placed in secondary schools in Barcelona. It draws on a focused case s…
Langue et insertion professionnelle de migrants africains à Barcelone
Cet article examine les processus d'insertion professionnelle d'un groupe de cinq jeunes migrants africains vivant dans la région métropolitaine de Barcelone (Catalogne, Espagne) dans la perspective du rôle et de la valeur de leur répertoire multilingue. Relatant un engagement ethnographique à long terme avec ces cinq personnes, cet article présente leurs trajectoires personnelles et professionnelles, et analyse les facteurs qui ont contribué à l…
Constructing inequality in multilingual classrooms Luisa Martín Rojo (2010) Berlin
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Plurilinguisme et promotion d'une langue minoritaire
Dans la Catalogne contemporaine, l'école fait face aux défis de gérer le plurilinguisme croissant de ses élèves, satisfaire les demandes sociales d'apprentissage de langues et de répondre à sa mission historique de transmission de la langue catalane. Nous explorons les discours qui circulent dans le monde éducatif catalan. Notre approche théorique essaye de combiner les postulats de l'anthropologie linguistique et de la sociolinguistique qualitat…
Immigration and Bureaucratic Control
This original study looks at language practices in a government agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to transnational migrants in Spain. Drawing on a unique corpus of naturally-occurring verbal interactions between state officials and migrant petitioners as well as ethnographic materials and interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion. Th…
Ideologies and practices of multilingualism in bureaucratic and legal advice encounters
The increasing growth of foreign immigration to Spain has changed the communicative reality of various types of institutions. Civil servants, doctors, teachers, social workers and all sorts of service providers face new communicative challenges in their daily professional practice. The changing face and voice of their clientele calls into question habitualised forms of service delivery based on the homogeneity of practices and worldviews (Moyer a…
Regimenting discourse, controlling bodies
This article examines, from a critical and ethnographic sociolinguistic perspective, the socio-discursive practices unfolding at the information desk of a Spanish immigration office in Barcelona. Drawing on a corpus of ethnographic materials and interactional data, the article discusses why frontline communication became constituted as it did, what practical routines and ideological considerations grounded it, and how multiple social and institut…
Hacer sociolingüística etnográfica en un mundo cambiante
Este volumen reúne un grupo de trabajos de jóvenes sociolingüistas del mundo hispano que reflexionan, a través de su experiencia investigadora, sobre la metodología etnográfica, sus retos y confines epistemológicos, así como la configuración de nuevas posibilidades y formas de investigación para el estudio situado de los usos lingüísticos en los contextos plurilingües y multiculturales del mundo actual. Si bien se trata de seis artículos con temá…
Constructing inequality in multilingual classrooms Luisa Martín Rojo (2010) Berlin
The intercultural dynamics of multicultural working
The intercultural dynamics of multicultural working, edited by Manuela Guilherme, Evelyne Glaser and Maria del Carmen Mendez-Garcia, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2010, 264 pp., £63.96 (hardback)
Multilingual discursive practices and processes of social change in globalising institutional spaces
This special issue aims to study multilingualism in relation to contemporary processes of transformation of institutional spaces.Our focus is on the ways in which multilingual
Shifting discourses of migrant incorporation at a time of crisis
In this article, we investigate the discursive transformations that occurred at a migrant-support non-governmental organisation (NGO) located in the outskirts of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and how they intersect with broader sociopolitical and economic processes. In particular, we focus on the revamping of the key notions of language and labour in the institutional imagination of migrant incorporation processes. Our data was collected over the …
Deskilling and delanguaging African migrants in Barcelona
This article analyses the labour and social trajectories of seven multilingual and well-educated young men from Africa in the Barcelona area (Catalonia, Spain) over a 5-year period. Our data consist of life history interviews combined with ethnographic observations in a settlement non-governmental organisation (NGO). We adopt a critical sociolinguistic perspective on language and mobility which underlines the time–space dimension of migrants' emp…
Langue et insertion professionnelle de migrants africains à Barcelone
Cet article examine les processus d'insertion professionnelle d'un groupe de cinq jeunes migrants africains vivant dans la région métropolitaine de Barcelone (Catalogne, Espagne) dans la perspective du rôle et de la valeur de leur répertoire multilingue. Relatant un engagement ethnographique à long terme avec ces cinq personnes, cet article présente leurs trajectoires personnelles et professionnelles, et analyse les facteurs qui ont contribué à l…
Language-mediated services for migrants
This chapter focuses on the second type of services, that is, those constituted by the migrant experience, and it adopts a general perspective on them linked to the analysis of language ideologies and practices. This has two consequences. First, it does not focus exclusively on language services, that is, on the institutional provision of translation, mediation, or interpreting in migrant languages, but on how these services shape access to resou…
CLIL, unequal working conditions and neoliberal subjectivities in a state secondary school
The intersection of global mobility, lifestyle and ELT work
This paper examines the intersection of one form of contemporary mobility, i.e. lifestyle mobility, with the ELT industry. It draws on the discursive analysis of a small corpus of life story data produced by native English language teachers of different ages residing in Barcelona. Through their own personal and professional accounts and rationales, it seeks to comprehend how they construct their work experiences in the light of previous professio…
Lifestyle residents in Barcelona
The popularization of lifestyle migration epitomizes the individualization of contemporary lives, and the centrality of travel and spatial relocation in people's aspirational or real life projects. This article examines the processes of sociolinguistic relocation of "lifestylers" in the polylingual city of Barcelona through the lens of their embracing or rejection of Catalan, the non-state, local co-official language. It aims to decipher to what …
A plus for our students’
Mandarin Chinese is the fastest growing foreign language by number of students in the world [Ding and Saunders 2006. “Talking up China: An Analysis of China’s Rising Cultural Power and Global Promotion of the Chinese Language.” East Asia 23 (2): 3–33], but little is known about how it is taking hold in compulsory education in different countries. This paper examines the institutionalisation of Mandarin in an elite school located near Barcelona, S…
English language assistants in the 21st century
Although the figure of the English language assistant (ELA) dates back a long while, its current popularity is unprecedented in some areas of the world. Such is the case of Spain, where the goal of raising English standards among the younger generations has become a national obsession. Using critical ethnographic methods, this paper examines the experience of three British LAs placed in secondary schools in Barcelona. It draws on a focused case s…
Teaching the sociolinguistics of heteroglossia
OBRA RESSENYADA: Florian COULMAS, An Introduction to Multilingualism: Language in a Changing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 -- Marilyn MARTIN-JONES and Deirdre MARTIN, Researching Multilingualism: Critical and Ethnographic Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2017
The dilemmas of experimental CLIL in Catalonia
In the early twenty-first century Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) emerged as a distinctively European pedagogy for raising additional language competence. Although CLIL scholarship has been abundant and has taken many different directions, there is a dearth of ethnographic research to shed light on the situated ambivalences of CLIL policymaking. This paper aims to fill the existing gap by analysing in detail the complex interlocki…
The value(s) of English as global linguistic capital
Theorists of linguistic justice tend to assume that English (particularly its native varieties) has paramount and stable value as a global communicative tool. From this alleged value they identify several injustices for non-native speakers, like unequal opportunities and lower dignity, related to the instrumental and identity-related values of languages. In this article we challenge assumptions about the real-life value of English by engaging in …
Localising international schools in multilingual Switzerland
Published online: 07 May 2024
On close reading and slow writing [Multilingua]
In an academic world in the throes of the audit culture, there is mileage in proposals that call for a reduction of research output. But while such a reduction is defensible on principle, and, indeed, a crucial measure to go against excessive output requirements, we are not sure it guarantees superior scholarship. In this commentary, we will suggest that calls for academic degrowth overlook the room for manoeuvre academics already have or should …
Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain
This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews conducted in Barcelona, this paper explores participant perceptions around L2 English and accent. The res…
‘It's Necessary to Step Outside the Furrow’
In this interview Emili Boix‐Fuster, one of the most prominent figures of post‐Francoist Catalan sociolinguistics, reflects on his work and academic trajectory as well as on the contribution of Catalan sociolinguistics to minoritized language scholarship and language revitalization efforts in Catalonia. The interview begins with a discussion of how his upbringing and the sociopolitical climate of his young adult years sparked his interest in soci…
Sociology (21 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (15 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (9 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Catalan (6 works) · Humanities (6 works)