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Mr Josep Cru Talaveron

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