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Mr Josep Cru Talaveron
Catalan Lector in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43459
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 43421
Room number: 210, Elvet Riverside II
Contact Mr Josep Cru Talaveron (email at josep.cru@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
With the support of the Institute Ramon Llull, I have been teaching Catalan at Durham University and Newcastle University since the academic year 2007-08. I am currently doing a PhD on language revitalisation in Yucatan, Mexico at Newcastle. I am also the Secretary of Linguapax, an international organisation based in Barcelona which promotes language diversity worldwide. More information at: http://www.linguapax.org/
Background
- Language, Literacy and Culture MA at the University of California, Berkeley, 1999
- Linguistics BA at the University of Barcelona, 1996
- Anglo-German Philology BA at the University of Barcelona, 1993
Teaching Commitments
SPAN2011 Catalan Beginners
SPAN3211 Catalan Advanced
Research Interests
- Indigenous languages of Latin America
- Language ideologies
- Language policy and planning
- Sociolinguistics
