Josep Soler-Carbonell, BA in English Philology and General Linguistics, Ph.D. in Linguistics and Communication ("Doctor Europaeus" distinction), Universitat de Barcelona.
Lector in Catalan
Address: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, 41 Wellington Square, OX1 2JF
Email: josep.soler-carbonell@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research
Dr Soler-Carbonell's research interests gravitate around the following broad areas: Sociolinguistics; Language politics and language planning; Language anthropology; Language ideologies; Language diversity and globalization; Multilingualism; Language, society and identity; Language and the media; Catalan sociolinguistics; Estonian sociolinguistics; Language diversity in the USA; Language and immigration; Second and foreign language acquisition.
Teaching
Catalan language, literature and linguistics; Catalan Translation Workshop.
Special Subjects (Paper XII) in the Final Honour School: Modern Catalan Literature; Modern Catalan.
Publications
Articles
“Els reptes de les llengües mitjanes a Catalunya i Estònia en l’era ‘glocal’. Una perspectiva comparada de les ideologies lingüístiques dels seus parlants” [The challenges of medium-sized languages in Catalonia and Estonia in the ‘glocal’ era; A comparative perspective of their speakers language ideologies], Revista de Llengua i Dret. To appear in volume 57, June 2012.
(2011) “Speakers’ evaluations of the Estonian and the Russian languages in Tallinn. Between linguistic stability and interethnic tension”, Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri (ESUKA) – Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (JEFUL) 2, 1, pp. 315-333. Tartu: University of Tartu.
(2010) “Estònia i les migracions russòfones. Breu repàs de l’estat de la qüestió” [Estonia and the Russophone migrations; A brief review of the state of the art], LSC - Llengua, Societat i Comunicació, 8, pp. 93-102. Barcelona: CUSC-UB, Universitat de Barcelona.
(2007) “Análisis sociolingüístico de la subtitulación y el doblaje de los productos audiovisuales. El caso concreto de la lengua catalana” [A sociolinguistic analysis of audiovisual products; The case of Catalan language], Estudios Catalanes. Revista Internacional de Lengua, Literatura y Cultura Catalanas, 5, pp. 67-92. Santa Fe (Argentina): Universidad del Litoral.
(2007) Co-authored with: Vila i Moreno, Francesc Xavier, Sarah Cassel, Núria Busquet Isard, Joan-Pau Callejón Mateu, Toni Mercadal Moll. “Sense accents? Les contradiccions de l’estàndard oral en els doblatges catalans de pel•lícules d’animació” [Without an accent? The contradictions of oral standard in the dubbings of Catalan animated films], Revista de Llengua i Dret, 47, pp. 387-413. Barcelona: Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya.
Book notes
2010 Language diversity in the USA, by K. Potowsky (ed.) Language in Society, vol. 41, issue 3, p. 412-413.