Documenting Gen ’95er Voices from Catalonia

This book describes the longitudinal perspectives of 35 people from Catalonia on the issues of language, identity, politics, and economy that have propelled "the Catalan situation" into world news. Specifically, the book focuses on the political economy of language in relation to processes of localization and globalization across the lifespan of members of "The Generation of 1995", otherwise ordinary men and women who happened to grow up in extraordinary times. The author argues that members of this group employ language in patterned ways of speaking that reflect progressively globalizing identities and ideologies in Catalonia, emergent world-building processes, and a sociolinguistics of mobile language resources. This unique ethnographic oral history will be of interest to students and scholars in fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse and text linguistics, language documentation, sociology, communications, political science, Spanish linguistics, Iberian studies, and Catalan studies.