Amado Alarcón Alarcón
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amado Alarcón Alarcón plays a role.
2022 Sociology of language Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1286–1302 | Chapter
2022 Chapter 12. The economics of language Catalan Sociolinguistics: State of the art and future challenges, Pradilla Cardona, Miquel Àngel (ed.), pp. 173–182 | Chapter
This article reviews the contributions made from the Catalan academia to the economy of the language. The economics of language comprises two subfields: (1) the study of the relationships between language and economic activity, and (2) the study of the social dimensions of language from the… read more
2022 Sociology of language Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Chapter
2021 Language gender gap at work across OECD countries: Quantitative and controversial evidence Language Problems and Language Planning 45:3, pp. 284–308 | Article
Language gender differences at work have been widely described though hardly measured. The object of this study is whether there are gender differences in the use of language skills at work and what those differences are. A gender gap measure of linguistic skills used at work is presented and… read more
2013 Children of immigrants and social mobility in officially bilingual societies: The case of Catalonia Spanish in Context 10:1, pp. 92–113 | Article
This article analyses the role of language in the intra- and intergenerational social mobility of Argentinean, Colombian and Moroccan immigrants in Catalonia, an officially bilingual society. We start from the notion that the knowledge and use of and attachment to local languages are affected by… read more