Catalan Studies

Traslado, explicación y emulación: los traductores del Corán y la palabra sagrada

by Salvador Peña

Published in 'Sendebar' (Universidad de Granada) 17 (2006, pp. 61-84.

Traditionally there have been two different strategies toward the interpretation and translation of the Christian... more Traditionally there have been two different strategies toward the interpretation and translation of the Christian Scriptures, namely 'transfering' and 'explaining', according to Fray Luis de Leon's terminology. The first of these two strategies has been maintained by most Biblical translators, while Qur'anic translators have normally been biased toward a model of translation inspired by the politics of explaining. This is particularly true when we deal with Qur'anic passages analyzed as instances of figurative speech by medieval Arab commentators, who seem to be still inspiring contemporary translators. Nevertheless a new model of Qur'anic translation has recently been implemented by M. de Epalza and his team. Their translation of the Qur'an into Catalonian has been generally acclaimed because of their sttylistic concerns. We analyze this translation in the light of some contemporary Western sets of ideas about truth and religion.

L'Estudi de la Masia Catalana. Difusió dels resultats d'una recerca

by Josep Font Sentias

"Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya". núm. 38 feb. 2011. Departament de Cultura. Generalitat de Catalunya

"Traducir el mundo para entenderlo" in Shangrila Ediciones. Textos en Red. Reseña: Voces. Antología de narrativa catalana contemporánea. Edición y prólogo de Lolita Bosch. Barcelona: Anagrama. Narrativas Hispánicas, 2010.

by Aurelie Vialette

T'estimo lliure. Resposta a l'atac a la normalització lingüística del català

by Anna Brasó i Rius

“Clavé et le “Cas Wagner”: Réception populaire et expectatives bourgeoises de Wagner en Catalogne au XIXe siècle.”

by Aurelie Vialette

Serge Salaün and Françoise Etienvre (Eds). La Réception des cultures de masse et des cultures populaires en Espagne: XVIIIe-XXe siècles. Paris: Publication du Centre de Recherche sur l’Espagne Contemporaine, Université de La Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), 2009, 104-119.

Poetics of the Proto-Archive: creating the Industrial Workers' Redemption

by Aurelie Vialette

Catalan Review 24 (2010), 223-241.

A propòsit del Llibre de fra Bernat

by Josep Antoni Ysern Lagarda

Published in: Revista de lengua y literatura catalana, gallega y vasca (12), 85-113 p.

An approach to the catalan fabliau "Llibre de fra Bernat". An approach to the catalan fabliau "Llibre de fra Bernat".

«Exempla» i estructures exemplars en el primer llibre del «Fèlix»

by Josep Antoni Ysern Lagarda

Published in Studia Lulliana, 39 (1999), pp. 25-43.

Included in the "Llull DB": http://orbita.bib.ub.edu/llull/complet.asp?3726

With Llull it is a commonplace to emphasize his originality in the use of exempla. This originality can only be... more With Llull it is a commonplace to emphasize his originality in the use of exempla. This originality can only be evaluated by contrasting his use of certain narratives with those we find in other authors. This is precisely what I try to do, in this study, by means of: a) confronting sorne Lullian exempla with others which could have been their source; b) a description of how these texts are articulated within a concrete work - the first book of Felix; c) a proposal for a system of formalizing the textual structures studies, in order to facilitate their study.

Phraseologismen in der Minderheitensprache Katalanisch: Global, areal oder dialektal?

by Heike van Lawick

Lawick, Heike van (2010): «Phraseologismen in der Minderheitensprache Katalanisch: Global, areal oder dialektal? Eine korpuslinguistisch gestützte Untersuchung von Übersetzungen», en Jarmo Korhonen, Wolfgang Mieder, Elisabeth Piirainen & Rosa Piñel (eds.), Phraseologie global – areal – regional. Tübingen: Narr, 293-299. ISBN: 978-3-8233-6508-2.

La ciudad arqueológica en el área catalana ante la irrupción del Islam

by Josep M. Macias Solé - ICAC

Macias, J.M. (2011),  Zona Arqueológica, 15, p. 103-107

To What Can We Attribute the Extraordinary Success of Les veus del Pamano?

by Todd Mack

Published in "Visat" the online journal of the Catalan PEN society

LA R+D en investigació literària (=R&D in literary research)

by Jordi Ardanuy

Co-authored with Llorenç Arguimbau.
IV SEMINARI SOBRE PATRIMONI LITERARI I TERRITORI Del món acadèmic a la viabilitat econòmica. 14 i 15 de novembre de 2008. Fundació Mercè Rodoreda (Institut d’Estudis Catalans)

Abstract. This conference paper reflects on the concept and evolution of research and development (R&D) in the... more Abstract. This conference paper reflects on the concept and evolution of research and development (R&D) in the area of literature on Catalan language and culture. From both quantitative and qualitative points of view, the research examines the agents involved (universities, institutes and research groups, foundations, etc.) inputs (human, financial
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and material) and outputs (monographs and chapters, journals and papers, doctoral theses, conference papers, etc.).
Data were obtained from various sources of information, showing the important methodological problems in data collection (lack of objective and systematic collections, manual work to collect and organize appropriate information, etc.).
Whenever possible, the information was studied according to different geographical areas and fields (contemporary literature, modern literature, medieval literature and, lastly, cross-sectional studies, literary theory and comparative literature).
Finally, it is drawing some conclusions about R&D in literature and its future prospects.

Els catalans i mallorquins a la Mar Negra i a Tartària

by Daniel Duran Duelt

In M. Teresa FERRER I MALLOL. Els catalans a la Mediterrània oriental a l‟Edat Mitjana. Jornades Científiques de l‟Institut d‟Estudis Catalans. Secció Històrico-Arqueològica: Barcelona, 16 i 17 de novembre de 2000, IEC: Barcelona, 2003, p. 191-220

Through archival documents and chronicles, this article analyzes the Catalan presence in the Black Sea, between the... more Through archival documents and chronicles, this article analyzes the Catalan presence in the Black Sea, between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the shadow of Genoese and Venetians, the Catalans were installed in the region and came to enter the Central Asia, but never came to be present in large numbers.

The identities of «la penya»: the voices and struggles of young working-class people in Barcelona

by Joan Pujolar

Thesis submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in Linguistics: April 1995. Lancaster University.

My study is based on an ethnography of two groups of young people from working-class neighbourhoods in Barcelona. I... more My study is based on an ethnography of two groups of young people from working-class neighbourhoods in Barcelona. I was interested in researching the impact of Catalan language policies on the identities of young people of Spanish-speaking immigrant families. I sought to go beyond the constraints of traditional structuralist approaches in Sociolinguistics in order to make my analysis relevant to people working for gender equality, the promotion of the Catalan language, or other social causes. I combine ideas from Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Fairclough, Foucault and Goffman to build a dialectical, historical, process-centred perspective that conceptualises practices in terms of social and political struggles.

I analyse young people's peer-group activities in terms of their significance for the construction of gender identities. I propose a variety of forms of masculinity and femininity according to the various ways in which members organised their gender displays in face-to-face interaction.

I also show how their use of argot and dialectal Spanish was part of the processes whereby members defined their relationships, constructed particular subject positions in interaction and struggled to legitimate their own values.

I explore the meanings constructed through Catalan and Spanish by looking into the code-switching practices of my participants. I analysed their talk in terms of narratives that present particular sequential dramatisations of events for conversational audiences. These narratives follow the expressive intention of the author, and are populated with multiple voices of animated characters. I argue that, in the groups I studied, Catalan was generally not used to animate the voices that were central to the identities of the peer-group, and particularly to masculine identities.

In order to contextualise these practices within the wider society, I also look into the processes of language choice in face-to-face encounters. I argue that existing conventions made it difficult for people to find opportunities to speak Catalan. I also pointed to the difficulties that my participants had to find employment, which were particularly acute amongst the more politically aware individuals. I conclude that these young working-class people had little possibilities of investing in more egalitarian forms of identity given their lack of resources and opportunities to develop their identities in other social spaces, such as the workplace.

Immigration in Catalonia: The Politics of Sociolinguistic Research

by Joan Pujolar

Working paper. Final version published as Pujolar, Joan. 1995. «Immigration in Catalonia: the politics of sociolinguistic research». Catalan Review, International Journal of Catalan Culture 9(2):141-162.

El Mestre d'Albesa i uns fragments de retaule de l'Escola de Lleida (segle XIV) a les Borges Blanques

by Alberto Velasco Gonzàlez

(with Joan Yeguas) in Cabal de petjades. VII Trobada d'Estudiosos de les Garrigues, Juneda, Editorial Fonoll, 2010, pp. 217-225.

La katalunaj esperantistoj. Socilingvistika trarigardo.

by Hèctor Alòs i Font

In: Blanke, Detlev; Ulrich Lins. La arto labori kune. Festlibro por Humphrey Tonkin. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, 2010. P. 558-573.

Surbaze de enketo inter 98 katalunaj esperantistoj, la esploro, unuflanke, komparas la ecojn de tiu kolektivo kun tiuj... more Surbaze de enketo inter 98 katalunaj esperantistoj, la esploro, unuflanke, komparas la ecojn de tiu kolektivo kun tiuj de la kataluna socio kaj, aliflanke, analizas la grupon mem kaj la eventualan evoluon de la membroj.  La esploro ne subkomprenas, kiel antaŭaj enketoj en aliaj landoj, la membrecon en landa asocio kiel sinonimon de esperantisteco, sed aparte interesiĝas pri la difino de la koncepto “esperantisto” kontrastigante diversajn respondojn. Aliflanke, ĝi provas certigi ekvilibrigitan samplon por eviti deviojn en la rezultoj pro superreprezentiĝo de difinitaj subgrupoj. La rezultoj montras plurajn atentindajn deviojn de la katalunaj esperantistoj disde siaj samlandanoj – aparte pri klereco, politikaj sintenoj kaj okupado de la libera tempo – , kaj samtempe konfirmas la rezultojn atingitajn en aliaj landoj, malgraŭ kelkaj rimarkindaj diferencoj eventuale klarigeblaj pro la nacia kaj lingva minoritateco de la katalunaj esperantistoj.

Problemes lexicogràfics en la traducció alemany-català: com superar els límits dels diccionaris bilingües

by Heike van Lawick

LAWICK, Heike van (2011) «Problemes lexicogràfics en la traducció alemany-català: com superar els límits dels diccionaris bilingües». Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 24, 33-52.

Les traduccions a l’alemany dels contes de Mercè Rodoreda

by Heike van Lawick

LAWICK, Heike van (1998): «Les traduccions a l’alemany dels contes de Mercè Rodoreda», en Alonso, V., A. Bernal & C. Gregori, Actes del Primer Simposi Internacional de Narrativa Breu. València & Barcelona: Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana & Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 355-376.

(Book review) Robert Archer, "Lo cor salvatge": indagacions sobre Ausiàs March, València, Institució Alfons el Magnànim / Diputació de València, 2009

by Marion Coderch

Published in Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 49 (Fall 2010), pp. 269-274