Language, Culture and Identity in the Global Age

Traditional dances in Spain. Bibliometric study based on high impact search engines

“…We cannot forget the important role played by educational centers in the transmission of culture (Ibáñez et al, 2023). Pujolar et al (2011) state that today states no longer guarantee the functioning of monolingual public spaces from the moment in which economic flows, major political decisions or the communicative dynamics facilitated by ICTs (p. 57). Although this statement refers to the linguistic field, we are faced with the same problems in the transmission of music, dance and other elements of popular culture attached to a specific territory; the genres themselves are often cornered by those transmitted by the mass media.…”

Language and identity in linguistic ethnography

“…Rather, such practices are investigated with reference to the fragmented repertoires that people acquire, construct and mobilise by positioning themselves and others in ways that have consequences for their distinct degrees of control over access to different social spaces (e.g., formal versus informal), symbolic resources (e.g., institutionalised forms of recognition through certificates) and materialities (e.g., jobs) throughout the course of their life trajectories. Indeed, this view has led to the emergence of new terms like "new speakers" (Pujolar, Fernàndez and Subirana 2011), "transidiomaticity" (Jacquemet 2005), "polylingualism" (Jørgensen 2008), "translanguaging" (Garcia 2009) or "metrolingualism" (Otsuji and Pennycook 2010). Such terms are attempts to describe linguistic practices placed outside the modern ideological framework of the nation-state that involve hybrid repertoires traditionally associated with different and separate national languages.…”