This August, two new articles written by MIRCo-UAM members have been published in the well-known Language Policy journal. Those, along with the article by Luisa M. Rojo and Lara Alonso of this May, are part of a new monographic of the Language Policy journal, coordinated by Lara Alonso and Jone Goigolzarri on the results of the EquiLing project (Ref. (PID2019-105676RB-C41/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
The first of those, under the title “Como no me convierta en Pedro Sánchez”/”If I don’t become Spain’s president”: enhancing agency against sociolinguistic injustice through an interactional conscientization process is written by Miren Otxotorena and Luisa M. Rojo. This article is the result of a participatory research project, begun in 2020, aiming at evidencing the role of languages in social inequalities and injustices. The activities of this project, carried out in a public university in Madrid, have shed light on how Spanish is a dominant language, thanks to different activities and workshops, allowing to reflect on the role of language in social and power-related practices from a general perspective.
The second article, made by Héctor Grad and Anna Tudela, is called Agency mobilization applying an ethnography-based questionnaire of critical sociolinguistic incidents. This work shows the result of an ethnographic field work carried out in the public universities of Madrid, where participants filled out the same questionnaire twice, regarding situations of linguistic misrecognition and unequal distribution of linguistic resources among speakers of minority languages, different varieties of Spanish and the presence of English in Spanish universities. Their results showed that this ethnographic questionnaire is useful in these researches, since it can be used as a tool to reflect on those resources, on the sociolinguistic context of the university and the individual agency to change those matters.
Both articles and the monographic are published under Open Source, and are available at springer.com.
