Jordi Ginebra
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jordi Ginebra plays a role.
2023 Ideologia nacional i política lingüística: El discurs dels àngels i el discurs dels humans Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology, Feliu, Francesc (ed.), pp. 99–115 | Chapter
Scholars who reflect upon language policy proposals that respect the speakers of minoritized languages warn that in order to achieve this goal we must not copy the mechanisms that have led to language repression, i.e. the mechanisms of the nation-state. It is necessary to overcome the narrow… read more
2016 De llengües, mites i emocions al xix català: el mite de la llengua del cor? / Language, myths and emotions in nineteenth-century Catalan: The myth of the language of the heart? Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions, Feliu, Francesc and Josep M. Nadal (eds.), pp. 297–318 | Article
At the beginning of the nineteenth century very few reasons remained to support the claim that the Catalan language would play a significant role in the future of Catalonia. The opinion was that, if the teaching of Spanish was both good and well established, the Catalans would give up their own… read more
2014 Composició culta / Neoclassical compounding Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view, Cabré, Teresa, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà (eds.), pp. 67–83 | Article
The data from the NEOXOC Project corresponding to the years 2008–2010 provide 2,039 neologic lexical units formed by neoclassical compounding (1,506 after eliminating the words detected in more than one node). Neoclassical compounding is therefore one of the most productive processes, after… read more
2014 Prefixació / Prefixation Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view, Cabré, Teresa, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà (eds.), pp. 23–39 | Article
Evidence from the NEOXOC project confirms that trends related to prefixation in Catalan are in line with the expectations derived from previous research. Between 2008 and 2010, the Project collected 1.890 neologic lexical units coined by use of prefixation, 16.20% of the total neologisms collected,… read more