Reserca / Research

RECERCA DEPARTMENTAL / DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH

El grup de recerca CIEN estudia usos lingüístics bilingües i multilingües a Catalunya des de la perspectiva de la sociolingüística crítica. Està dirigit per la Dra Melissa G. Moyer. Els altres membres de l’equip inclouen Eva Codó, Sònia Oliver, Dolores Ruiz Lozano, Monica Heller, Alexandre Duchêne i Gabriele Budach. També compta amb tres becàries predoctorals: Maria Sabaté i Dalmau, Katia Yago Cabeza i Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà. Aquest grup de recerca actualment està finançat pel Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia a través del projecte I+D HUM2007-61864 La Gestión del Multilinguismo en el Ámbito Institucional i per una ajuda ARAFI200700018 de l’AGAUR a través del projecte Gestió de l'Acollida Lingüística dels Nouvinguts en una Institució Pública i una Institució No Governamental.

THE CIEN research group studies bilingual and multilingual language use and practices from a critical sociolinguistic perspective. It is led by Melissa G. Moyer. The other members of the team include Eva Codó, Sònia Oliver, Dolores Ruiz Lozano, Monica Heller, Alexandre Duchêne and Gabriele Budach. This group also includes the research assistants Maria Sabaté i Dalmau, Katia Yago Cabeza and Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà. This research group is currently funded by the I+D HUM2007-61864 grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia on The Management of  Multilingualism in Institutional Sites and by the ARAFI200700018 grant from the Departament of Research, Autonomomous Government of Catalonia on Management of the Linguistic Reception of Newcomers in a Public Institution and a Non Governmental Institution.

Post-Colonial Literatures and Cultures

The research group in Post-Colonial Literatures and Cultures is directed by Felicity Hand. We are in the first year of our second research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Micinn). Our first project Hybridity in Indian Ocean Literature in English and French: Convergences and Divergences. Contrastive Study of an Emerging Literary System (HUM2006-02725) analyzed the concept of hibridity as the driving force behind creative writing and the imaginary in Indian Ocean literature in English and French. Our first international conference Indicities was held in April 2009. This second project Cartographies of Indianness in Indian Ocean Literature: Memory, Connections and Trauma (FFI2009-07711) focuses on cultural productions in the South West Indian Ocean and East Africa, with special emphasis on those areas with a sizeable South Asian component, such as Mauritius, Réunion, Kenya and Zanzibar. Our members include Makarand Paranjape (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) Farhad Khoyratty (University of Mauritius), Isabel Alonso (University of Barcelona), Mar García (Dept. French, UAB) and Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo (Université de La Réunion)