Documenting Gen ’95er Voices from Catalonia

Documenting Gen ’95er Voices from Catalonia documents linguistic practices and ideologies toward language, identity, and nationalism among 35 members of the first generation in Spain to grow up with democracy and Catalan language normalisation.

Part I reproduces, translates, and analyses artifacts (1975–1998) concerning language shift, linguistic nationalism, and Europeanisation, illustrating contemporaneous sociologies of language and globalisation in Catalonia.

Part II transcribes, translates, and ethnographically analyses oral histories from 2017 Barcelona Metro, detailing ways of speaking about topics such as identity, cultural malaise, politics, and self-determination involving globalisation processes.

Part III analyses variation in ideologies and ideological changes (1995–2017) based on childhood linguistic exposure and adult network ties. It unpacks emergent lexical coding that indexes globalising values and worldviews.

This book will be of interest to fields including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, sociology, communications, political science, Iberian studies, and Catalan studies.