Bio

He has been a professor of sociolinguistics and the director of the CUSC University Center for Research in Sociolinguistics and Communication at the University of Barcelona. A former president of the Catalan Sociolinguistic Group (today the Catalan Society of Sociolinguistics) he is now the editor of the journal Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana (Works of Catalan Sociolinguistics). He has been the lead investigator of the AMRELSE project (High Minorisation in Regions of Southeast Europe), after spearheading others in previous years.

His most recent publications are: "Language policies: why so much intolerance towards diversity?" in "Llengua i dialectes: esperances per al català, el gallec i el basc" ("Language and Dialects: Hopes for Catalan, Galician and Basque) (ed. by Emili Boix and M. Pilar Perea 2020), Barcelona: Editions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 25-43; and "Catalan sociolinguistics: between past and future" in "Noves perspectives en lingüística catalana. Passat, present i futur" ("New Perspectives in Catalan Linguistics:. Past, Present and Future) (ed. by Lluís Payrató, Emili Boix, M. Pilar Perea and Clàudia Pons-Moll 2023) Barcelona: Editions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 291-312.