Maria Sabaté-Dalmau
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Sabaté-Dalmau plays a role.
2021 Hidden language ‘battles’ in the diaspora: Linguistic identities and ideologies towards home and host languages among Pakistanis in Barcelona Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe, Wang, Zi and Florian Coulmas (eds.), pp. 213–235 | Article
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 Pakistanis living in Catalonia, a Catalan/Spanish-speaking European society. By… read more
2020 Neoliberal language policies and linguistic entrepreneurship in Higher Education: Lecturers’ perspectives Language, Culture and Society 2:2, pp. 174–196 | Article
This paper analyzes English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ ambivalent orientations towards neoliberal language policies and linguistic entrepreneurship. The data includes interviews with six case-study lecturers’ biographic narratives, audiologs and video/audio-recorded observations,… read more
2015 Migrant identities in narrative practice: In-/out-group constructions of ‘comrades’ and ‘rivals’ in storytelling about transnational life Narrative Inquiry 25:1, pp. 91–112 | Article
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 which get inscribed in a series of truncated stories mobilized by three… read more
2014 A sociolinguistic analysis of transnational SMS practices: Non-elite multilingualism, grassroots literacy and social agency among migrant populations in Barcelona SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Article
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 ICT-mediated vernacular literacies of a very heterogeneous small group of… read more
2012 A sociolinguistic analysis of transnational SMS practices: Non-elite multilingualism, grassroots literacy and social agency among migrant populations in Barcelona SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 318–340 | Article
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 ICT-mediated vernacular literacies of a very heterogeneous small group of… read more
2012 Aportaciones de la etnografía de red al estudio de un locutorio: Hacia un cambio de paradigma metodológico La sociolingüística con perspectiva etnográfica en el mundo hispano: Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones, Codó, Eva, Adriana Patiño-Santos and Virginia Unamuno (eds.), pp. 191–218 | Article
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, se contextualiza la móvil-ización de estas redes en Cataluña, y se presenta… read more
2010 Nuevas categorizaciones sociales a través del habla: (In)migrantes en la era de la globalización en una localidad catalana semi-rural Spanish in Context 7:2, pp. 221–253 | Article
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 rural catalán se actualizan en las prácticas lingüísticas diarias cuando el… read more