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Programme: accepted abstracts

Abstract ID: 1171

Part of Session 113: "Medium-sized" languages and the city (Other abstracts in this session)

Barcelona: a city between linguistic conflict and hybridity

Authors: Boix-Fuster, Emili
Submitted by: Boix-Fuster, Emili (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Barcelona is probably the unique big city in Europe where a minoritized language of a medium-sized community,, such as Catalan still is, This medium-sized language has a high prestige and is used in oficial and public domains in competition with Spanish and increasingly English. Until recently Catalan has been associated with middle class urban sectors, factor  that has explained its survival and thrust even under dictatorships and repressions. Globallization and migration theaten now the status of Catalan.  Quantitative and qualitative data will be discussed in order to  show the overall linguistic repertoire of the city and especially  how Catalan speakers strive to use their language, between conflict and hybridity.