Joan Pujolar
Biographic Data
| ID | 754901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Pujolar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Pujolar |
| SIGNATURE | PUJOLAR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0324-6033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Moving aside: Positioning sociolinguistics in a political economy of expertise
Negotiating sociolinguistic justice: Turning Spaces of Inequality Into Spaces of Conscientization
This introduction to the special issue Negotiating Sociolinguistic Justice: Turning Spaces of Inequality into Spaces of Conscientization focuses on how sociolinguistic research can be reimagined as a tool for activism and social intervention. The authors advocate for research that not only describes language-based inequalities but actively intervenes to address them by engaging communities in participatory processes. Inspired by Paulo Freire's co…
Agency as doing-together: Learning From Fieldwork Experiences
Drawing on the perspective of critical sociolinguistics, this article presents preliminary reflections on the debate on agency in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It draws upon three studies inspired by the Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology, conducted in various contexts in the Spanish state: (i) a university setting of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, characterized by a high linguistic diversity that remains largely…
Linguistic safe spaces and stepping stones: Rethinking mudes to Catalan through the lens of space’
Previous studies of linguistic mudes in minority language contexts, this is, biographical junctures where speakers enact changes in their linguistic repertoire, have contributed to our understanding of how linguistic codes are appropriated across the lifespan using a largely temporal frame of reference. However, our research in Catalan contexts also points to a spatial dimension to these linguistic appropriations. Life history narratives often in…
Relationships of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Times of Pandemic: An Inclusive Study
1) Background: Since 2012, our Inclusive Research Team has developed several studies on various topics that interest the co-researchers with intellectual disabilities. In 2021, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the co-researchers decided to investigate the impact of the pandemic on the relationships of people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this article is to disseminate how this inclusive study was developed and to explain its results…
The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker”: Perspectives from Multilingualism and Globalization
No abstract available.
Valencian sociolinguistics: Aracil, Ninyoles and the minority question
This text provides a review of the earlier and more influential works of Valencian sociolinguists Lluís Vicent Aracil and Rafael Lluís Ninyoles, which had a significant impact in the field from the 1960s to the 1980s, particularly in a number of European minoritized language communities and Latin America. I provide a summary account of their main theoretical innovations, embodied in concepts such as "language conflict," "linguistic normalization,…
Blog: La Càtedra Unesco de Diversitat Lingüística I Cultural/Unesco Chair on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. http://catedra-unesco.espais.iec.cat/category/opinio-reflexio-i-informacio
Linguistic mudes: An exploration over the linguistic constitution of subjects
The concept of muda has recently been used to name the specific biographical junctures where individuals enact significant changes in their linguistic repertoire. Given that the use of different linguistic varieties constitutes a resource to construct social categories and to evaluate an actor's claims to specific social identities, those who change their repertoire must deal with all the potential implications, namely how their social position t…
New speakers and processes of new speakerness across time and space
The theorizing and conceptualization of the new speaker label first emerged from discussions amongst a small group of researchers working on some of Europe's lesser-used languages including Catalan (Pujolar 2007; Pujolar and Gonzlez 2013), Galician (O'Rourke and Ramallo 2011 and O'Rourke and Ramallo 2013) and Irish (O'Rourke 2011). These are languages which were revitalized with some measure of success as a result of more favourable language poli…
New speakers of minority languages: The challenging opportunity – Foreword
In this special issue we examine and reflect upon the emergence of “new speak ers” in the context of some of Europe’s minority languages. The “new speaker” label is used here to describe individuals with little or no home or community exposure to a minority language but who instead acquire it through immersion or bilingual educational programs, revitalization projects or as adult language learners. The emergence of this profile of speaker draws o…
Linguistic mudes: How to become a new speaker in Catalonia
New speakers of Catalan have come to represent, from a demolinguistic perspective, a substantial part of the community of speakers. Of those who presently speak Catalan as an "habitual language", 41.6 percent are native speakers of Spanish. In this article, we shall follow up the various ways in which native Castilian speakers incorporate Catalan into their lives. This happens, as we will show, in specific biographical junctures that we call mude…
Linguistic commodification in tourism
Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalonia and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially in multilingual peripheries, is a key site for a sociolinguistic exploration of the political economy of globalization. We link shifts in the role of language in tourism to shifts in phases of capitalism, focusing on the shift from industrial t…
Linguistic ‘ mudes ’ and the de-ethnicization of language choice in Catalonia
Catalan speakers have traditionally constructed the Catalan language as the main emblem of their identity even as migration filled the country with substantial numbers of speakers of Castilian. Although Catalan speakers have been bilingual in Catalan and Castilian for generations, sociolinguistic research has shown how speakers' bilingual practices have always been sensitive to keeping a clear sense of the boundaries between the languages and bet…
The Political Economy of Texts: A Case Study in the Structuration of Tourism
The field of tourism, particularly in linguistic minority contexts, shows how texts are situated within struggles over the legitimization of symbolic and material resources. In order to understand this field, we distance ourselves from some of the prevailing assumptions in discourse analysis, which presents texts and contexts as separate entities for which a certain autonomy can be assumed. We offer instead a view of texts as some among many arti…
Immigration and bureaucratic control. Language practices in public administration
Immigration and bureaucratic control. Language practices in public administration, by Eva Codo, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2008, xviii + 254 pp., US$ 125.00/€98.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-11-019589
Construction of Gender in Informal Face-to-Face Encounters: A theoretical and methodological reflection
In this article I argue that we need to treat what I call the “local fields of participation” in a methodologically systematic manner. These fields are the relatively stable domains of social participation if everyday life: family, school, clique, workplace and so on. The research on language and gender constitutes a good example of the need to build an adequate understanding of the reproduction and transformation of relations of domination. I al…
Books
J⊘rgen S. Nielsen, Muslims in Western Europe, Islamic Surveys Series Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992, 180 pp., £14.95 p.b. W.A.R. Shadid and P.S. van Koningsveld (Eds.), Islam in Dutch Society: Current Developments and Future Prospects, Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1992, 203 pp., £23.67 p.b. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992, 160…
New speakers of minority languages: The challenging opportunity – Foreword
In this special issue we examine and reflect upon the emergence of “new speak ers” in the context of some of Europe’s minority languages. The “new speaker” label is used here to describe individuals with little or no home or community exposure to a minority language but who instead acquire it through immersion or bilingual educational programs, revitalization projects or as adult language learners. The emergence of this profile of speaker draws o…
Linguistic commodification in tourism
Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalonia and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially in multilingual peripheries, is a key site for a sociolinguistic exploration of the political economy of globalization. We link shifts in the role of language in tourism to shifts in phases of capitalism, focusing on the shift from industrial t…
Linguistic mudes: How to become a new speaker in Catalonia
New speakers of Catalan have come to represent, from a demolinguistic perspective, a substantial part of the community of speakers. Of those who presently speak Catalan as an "habitual language", 41.6 percent are native speakers of Spanish. In this article, we shall follow up the various ways in which native Castilian speakers incorporate Catalan into their lives. This happens, as we will show, in specific biographical junctures that we call mude…
The Political Economy of Texts: A Case Study in the Structuration of Tourism
The field of tourism, particularly in linguistic minority contexts, shows how texts are situated within struggles over the legitimization of symbolic and material resources. In order to understand this field, we distance ourselves from some of the prevailing assumptions in discourse analysis, which presents texts and contexts as separate entities for which a certain autonomy can be assumed. We offer instead a view of texts as some among many arti…
Linguistic safe spaces and stepping stones: Rethinking mudes to Catalan through the lens of space’
Previous studies of linguistic mudes in minority language contexts, this is, biographical junctures where speakers enact changes in their linguistic repertoire, have contributed to our understanding of how linguistic codes are appropriated across the lifespan using a largely temporal frame of reference. However, our research in Catalan contexts also points to a spatial dimension to these linguistic appropriations. Life history narratives often in…
Linguistic mudes: An exploration over the linguistic constitution of subjects
The concept of muda has recently been used to name the specific biographical junctures where individuals enact significant changes in their linguistic repertoire. Given that the use of different linguistic varieties constitutes a resource to construct social categories and to evaluate an actor's claims to specific social identities, those who change their repertoire must deal with all the potential implications, namely how their social position t…
Moving aside: Positioning sociolinguistics in a political economy of expertise
Negotiating sociolinguistic justice: Turning Spaces of Inequality Into Spaces of Conscientization
This introduction to the special issue Negotiating Sociolinguistic Justice: Turning Spaces of Inequality into Spaces of Conscientization focuses on how sociolinguistic research can be reimagined as a tool for activism and social intervention. The authors advocate for research that not only describes language-based inequalities but actively intervenes to address them by engaging communities in participatory processes. Inspired by Paulo Freire's co…
Relationships of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Times of Pandemic: An Inclusive Study
1) Background: Since 2012, our Inclusive Research Team has developed several studies on various topics that interest the co-researchers with intellectual disabilities. In 2021, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the co-researchers decided to investigate the impact of the pandemic on the relationships of people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this article is to disseminate how this inclusive study was developed and to explain its results…
Valencian sociolinguistics: Aracil, Ninyoles and the minority question
This text provides a review of the earlier and more influential works of Valencian sociolinguists Lluís Vicent Aracil and Rafael Lluís Ninyoles, which had a significant impact in the field from the 1960s to the 1980s, particularly in a number of European minoritized language communities and Latin America. I provide a summary account of their main theoretical innovations, embodied in concepts such as "language conflict," "linguistic normalization,…
Books
J⊘rgen S. Nielsen, Muslims in Western Europe, Islamic Surveys Series Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992, 180 pp., £14.95 p.b. W.A.R. Shadid and P.S. van Koningsveld (Eds.), Islam in Dutch Society: Current Developments and Future Prospects, Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1992, 203 pp., £23.67 p.b. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992, 160…
Construction of Gender in Informal Face-to-Face Encounters: A theoretical and methodological reflection
In this article I argue that we need to treat what I call the “local fields of participation” in a methodologically systematic manner. These fields are the relatively stable domains of social participation if everyday life: family, school, clique, workplace and so on. The research on language and gender constitutes a good example of the need to build an adequate understanding of the reproduction and transformation of relations of domination. I al…
The Political Economy of Texts: A Case Study in the Structuration of Tourism
The field of tourism, particularly in linguistic minority contexts, shows how texts are situated within struggles over the legitimization of symbolic and material resources. In order to understand this field, we distance ourselves from some of the prevailing assumptions in discourse analysis, which presents texts and contexts as separate entities for which a certain autonomy can be assumed. We offer instead a view of texts as some among many arti…
Immigration and bureaucratic control. Language practices in public administration
Immigration and bureaucratic control. Language practices in public administration, by Eva Codo, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2008, xviii + 254 pp., US$ 125.00/€98.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-11-019589
Linguistic ‘ mudes ’ and the de-ethnicization of language choice in Catalonia
Catalan speakers have traditionally constructed the Catalan language as the main emblem of their identity even as migration filled the country with substantial numbers of speakers of Castilian. Although Catalan speakers have been bilingual in Catalan and Castilian for generations, sociolinguistic research has shown how speakers' bilingual practices have always been sensitive to keeping a clear sense of the boundaries between the languages and bet…
Linguistic commodification in tourism
Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalonia and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially in multilingual peripheries, is a key site for a sociolinguistic exploration of the political economy of globalization. We link shifts in the role of language in tourism to shifts in phases of capitalism, focusing on the shift from industrial t…
New speakers and processes of new speakerness across time and space
The theorizing and conceptualization of the new speaker label first emerged from discussions amongst a small group of researchers working on some of Europe's lesser-used languages including Catalan (Pujolar 2007; Pujolar and Gonzlez 2013), Galician (O'Rourke and Ramallo 2011 and O'Rourke and Ramallo 2013) and Irish (O'Rourke 2011). These are languages which were revitalized with some measure of success as a result of more favourable language poli…
New speakers of minority languages: The challenging opportunity – Foreword
In this special issue we examine and reflect upon the emergence of “new speak ers” in the context of some of Europe’s minority languages. The “new speaker” label is used here to describe individuals with little or no home or community exposure to a minority language but who instead acquire it through immersion or bilingual educational programs, revitalization projects or as adult language learners. The emergence of this profile of speaker draws o…
Linguistic mudes: How to become a new speaker in Catalonia
New speakers of Catalan have come to represent, from a demolinguistic perspective, a substantial part of the community of speakers. Of those who presently speak Catalan as an "habitual language", 41.6 percent are native speakers of Spanish. In this article, we shall follow up the various ways in which native Castilian speakers incorporate Catalan into their lives. This happens, as we will show, in specific biographical junctures that we call mude…
Blog: La Càtedra Unesco de Diversitat Lingüística I Cultural/Unesco Chair on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. http://catedra-unesco.espais.iec.cat/category/opinio-reflexio-i-informacio
Linguistic mudes: An exploration over the linguistic constitution of subjects
The concept of muda has recently been used to name the specific biographical junctures where individuals enact significant changes in their linguistic repertoire. Given that the use of different linguistic varieties constitutes a resource to construct social categories and to evaluate an actor's claims to specific social identities, those who change their repertoire must deal with all the potential implications, namely how their social position t…
The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker”: Perspectives from Multilingualism and Globalization
No abstract available.
Valencian sociolinguistics: Aracil, Ninyoles and the minority question
This text provides a review of the earlier and more influential works of Valencian sociolinguists Lluís Vicent Aracil and Rafael Lluís Ninyoles, which had a significant impact in the field from the 1960s to the 1980s, particularly in a number of European minoritized language communities and Latin America. I provide a summary account of their main theoretical innovations, embodied in concepts such as "language conflict," "linguistic normalization,…
Linguistic safe spaces and stepping stones: Rethinking mudes to Catalan through the lens of space’
Previous studies of linguistic mudes in minority language contexts, this is, biographical junctures where speakers enact changes in their linguistic repertoire, have contributed to our understanding of how linguistic codes are appropriated across the lifespan using a largely temporal frame of reference. However, our research in Catalan contexts also points to a spatial dimension to these linguistic appropriations. Life history narratives often in…
Relationships of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Times of Pandemic: An Inclusive Study
1) Background: Since 2012, our Inclusive Research Team has developed several studies on various topics that interest the co-researchers with intellectual disabilities. In 2021, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the co-researchers decided to investigate the impact of the pandemic on the relationships of people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this article is to disseminate how this inclusive study was developed and to explain its results…
Moving aside: Positioning sociolinguistics in a political economy of expertise
Negotiating sociolinguistic justice: Turning Spaces of Inequality Into Spaces of Conscientization
This introduction to the special issue Negotiating Sociolinguistic Justice: Turning Spaces of Inequality into Spaces of Conscientization focuses on how sociolinguistic research can be reimagined as a tool for activism and social intervention. The authors advocate for research that not only describes language-based inequalities but actively intervenes to address them by engaging communities in participatory processes. Inspired by Paulo Freire's co…
Agency as doing-together: Learning From Fieldwork Experiences
Drawing on the perspective of critical sociolinguistics, this article presents preliminary reflections on the debate on agency in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It draws upon three studies inspired by the Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology, conducted in various contexts in the Spanish state: (i) a university setting of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, characterized by a high linguistic diversity that remains largely…
Sociology (15 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (6 works) · Gender Studies in Language (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works) · Catalan (4 works)