Miquel Nicolàs
List of John Benjamins publications in which Miquel Nicolàs is involved.
2026 L’aportació de Modest Prats a la Història de la llengua catalana The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages, Capdevila, Irene and Francesc Feliu (eds.), pp. 250–260 | Chapter
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, this work undertakes an assessment of the contribution of catalan professor Modest Prats to the discipline of language history. Apart from some aspects of his personality, it explains why his project, only partially carried out, of an… read more
2022 Chapter 5. Is there a social history of the Catalan language? Catalan Sociolinguistics: State of the art and future challenges, Pradilla Cardona, Miquel Àngel (ed.), pp. 55–66 | Chapter
Over the last century, historical linguistics has produced notable studies on the formal evolution of the Catalan language. Moreover, in recent decades Catalan sociolinguistics has been developed, connecting theory and empirical description to language policy. However, a social history of the… read more
2019 La variació lectal del català en l’era de la societat xarxa: Notes per a un debat The Intricacy of Languages, Feliu, Francesc and Olga Fullana (eds.), pp. 263–280 | Chapter
Until now, the dynamics of language change is going to understand the dissociation internal/external. The internal dimension understood as a balance between the formal systems of a language. The external data looked incorporate socioeconomic, political and cultural factors as explanatory of… read more
2016 “El valencià no se pedrà mai”: la manipulació mediàtica de les emocions col·lectives en l’anticatalanisme valencià durant la transició (1976-1982) / “El valencià no se pedrà mai”: Media manipulation of collective emotions in Valencian Anti-Catalanism during the Transition (1976-1982) Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions, Feliu, Francesc and Josep M. Nadal (eds.), pp. 337–351 | Article
Political identities reflect social inequalities and are rewritten at every historical conjuncture with symbolic materials, arguments and states of consciousness that prevail. Languages that use a human group in this context are vehicles for such reconstruction and act simultaneously as a… read more