Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic
Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political …

The second edition addresses new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial
publication, including the burgeoning influence of globalization and the relentless rise of …

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 …

While in many indigenous minority-language situations traditional native speaker
communities are in decline, new speakers are emerging in the context of revitalization …

This book examines how neoliberalism finds expression in foreign language textbooks.
Moving beyond the usual focus on English, Pau Bori explores the impact of neoliberal …

While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-
language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half …

Languages have always played a central role in the construction of modern national
identities through the one language/one culture/one nation paradigm. Nation-states have …

Most analyses of the sociolinguistic aspects of immigration focus on contexts where a single
language is official and widely used. In bilingual Catalonia, newly arriving immigrants find …

Linguistically, globalization has given rise to both homogenization and differentiation.
Imperial conquest and standardization in the European nation-building tradition led to the …

Not so long ago, we seemed to be making progress on the question of how to incorporate
meaningfully the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of our increasingly diverse school …