Browsing by Author "Sabaté Dalmau, Maria"
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A sociolinguistic analysis of transnational SMS practices: non-elite multilingualism, grassroots literacy and social agency among migrant populations in Barcelona
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012)From the field of the sociolinguistics of globalisation, this article investigates the linguistic features of transnational SMS talk, focusing on the heteroglossic and hybrid multilingual text messaging practices and the ... -
Aportaciones de la etnografía de red al estudio de un locutorio: Hacia un cambio de paradigma metodológico
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (John Benjamins Publishing, 2012)Este estudio analiza las aportaciones de la etnografía de red a la investigación de un grupo de migrantes multilingües que gestionan sus trayectorias transnacionales en torno a un locutorio de Barcelona. En primer lugar, ... -
El català dels locutoris: pràctiques i ideologies lingüístiques de la migració en espais urbans castellanoparlants
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Institut d´Estudis Catalans. Societat Catalana de Sociolingüística, 2016-12)Des del camp de la sociolingüística crítica de base etnogràfica, aquest estudi investiga les pràctiques i ideologies lingüístiques entorn del català d'un grup de vint persones multilingües indocumentades que, provinents ... -
Exploring the interplay of narrative and ethnography: A critical sociolinguistic approach to migrant stories of dis/emplacement
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (De Gruyter, 2018-01-18)In this article I explore the benefits of interplaying narrative and ethnography for conducting a context-grounded, sociolinguistic analysis of the representational and interactional functions of migrant storytelling events ... -
From "Sorry very much" to "I'm ever so sorry:" Acquisitional patterns in L2 apologies by Catalan learners of English
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria; Curell i Gotor, Hortènsia (Walter de Gruyter, 2007)This paper analyzes the acquisitional stages of L2 apology realizations in response to discourse completion tasks produced in a cross-sectional study by 78 Catalan learners of English at three di¤erent proficiency levels. ... -
Hidden language 'battles' in the diaspora: Linguistic identities and ideologies towards home and host languages among Pakistanis in Barcelona
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020-10-05)Following a critical sociolinguistics approach to language maintenance in the diaspora, this paper investigates interplaying linguistic identities and ideologies towards home and host languages among four case-study ... -
I speak small: unequal Englishes and transnational identities among Ghanaian migrants
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Taylor & Francis Online, 2018-02-15)This paper investigates language ideologies involving various nonstandard English-language practices among homeless Ghanaian migrants, and explores how these interplay with transnational identity management in Catalonia, ... -
Ideologies on multilingual practices at a rural Catalan school
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Equinox publishing, 2009)This ethnographic study analyses ideologies on multilingualism and attitudes toward cultural diversity in a rural Catalan school located in a semirural locality which is undergoing a series of changes linked to the dynamics ... -
Marketing university students as mobile multilingual workers: the emergence of neoliberal lifestylers
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-28)Under the conditions of the globalized new economy, European universities have become profit-making institutions. They envision students as mobile workers-to-be whose employability chances depend on self-enterprising and ... -
Migrant identities in narrative practice: In-/out-group constructions of 'comrades' and 'rivals' in storytelling about transnational life
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (John Benjamins Publishing, 2015-12-12)From an interpretive, post-structuralist perspective, this paper analyzes the discursive constructions of fluid migrant identities through the lens of narrative practice. I describe the presentations of the Self /the Other ... -
Migrant narratives of dis/emplacement: The alternative spatialization and ethnicization of the local urban floor
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (De Gruyter, 2016-05-06)From a critical sociolinguistic approach, this paper analyzes the stories of place and locality which emerge during a series of narrative interviews conducted with a small group of Ghanaian migrants who, unsheltered, lived ... -
Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (De Gruyter, 2015-07-02)From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an 'ethnic' call shop in ... -
Migrants' minority-language newspeakerism: The pervasiveness of nation-state monolingual regimes in transnational contexts
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Wiley Online Library, 2018-01-10)From a critical sociolinguistics perspective, this paper investigates processes of minority-language newspeakerism among 23 migrants from heterogeneous socioeconomic and language backgrounds. Informants networked in a ... -
Multilingualism, (im)mobilities and spaces of belonging, Horner, Kristine and Dailey‐O’Cain, Jennifer (Eds.), Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 2019
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Wiley, 2020-07-19)Ressenya del llibre: Multilingualism, (im)mobilities and spaces of belonging, Horner, Kristine and Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer (eds.), Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 2019. v–xiii + 246 pp. Hb (9781788925044) £119.95, Ebook ... -
Neoliberal language policies and linguistic entrepreneurship in Higher Education: Lecturers' perspectives
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020)This paper analyzes English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) lecturers' orientations towards neoliberal language policies and linguistic entrepreneurship. The data includes interviews with six case-study lecturers' biographic ... -
Nuevas categorizaciones sociales a través del habla: (In)migrantes en la era de la globalización en una localidad catalana semi-rural
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (John Benjamins Publishing, 2010)Este estudio analiza nuevos modelos de categorización etnosocial de cuatro grupos de migrantes1 multilingües en una localidad catalana semi-rural. Se investiga cómo los antiguos modos de identificación social en un enclave ... -
The Englishisation of higher education in Catalonia: a critical sociolinguistic ethnographic approach to the students' perspectives
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Taylor & Francis, 2016-03-23)This paper investigates the attitudes towards Englishisation displayed by 30 students enrolled in a Combined Languages degree, including English and another language, in a top-ranked bilingual university in Catalonia, where ... -
"The official language of Telefónica is English": Problematizing the construction of English as a lingua franca in the Spanish telecommunications sector
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2012)This article investigates the contradictions around the construction of English as a democratising lingua franca for intercultural communication and business in the Spanish telecommunications sector. From a critical ... -
La transmisión intergeneracional del albanés en el contexto migratorio de Grecia. Aproximación sociolingüística a los motivos que llevan a las madres albanesas a su abandono y muda lingüística
Bueno García, Sonia (2020-09)Desde la sociolingüística crítica, este estudio contribuye a arrojar luz sobre el fenómeno del abandono relativo de la lengua de herencia y la muda lingüística hacia la lengua de la sociedad de acogida en contextos migratorios ... -
Transnational trajectories of multilingual workers: sociolinguistic approaches to emergent entrepreneurial selves
Garrido, Maria Rosa; Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-07)