Research Lines

Multilingualism and multilingual practices in different social areas from an ethnographic perspective

• In their relation to social transformations and to new economies.
• In their imbrication with social and identitary processes, such as exclusion, the construction of inequality and subjectivation.

Diaspora speakers

• Trajectories, status, management of linguistic values and ideologies, speaker models, legitimacy, linguistic surveillance.

Discourse and power

• The exercise of power in interaction, the discursive construction of social representations.
• Discursive processes and problems of our time: racism and sexism; micro-violence, discourses at war, the construction of the neoliberal rationality, discursive production and circulation.

Intercultural communication and intercultural relations

• In their relation to colonialism, banal cosmopolitanism and neoliberalism.

Linguistic landscapes: The transformation of space through communicative practices:

•  Discourses and urban processes: occupation, (de)territorialisation, gentrification, migration, political contestation, and gender issues etc.