El paisatge lingüístic a la Facultat d’Educació de la Universitat les Illes Balears
Una finestra a la diversitat?
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https://doi.org/10.12797/SI.25.2025.25.11Keywords:
education, language ideologies, multilingualism, linguistic landscapeAbstract
THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE AT THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS: A WINDOW ONTO DIVERSITY?
This paper aims to provide an initial approach to the linguistic landscape at the Faculty of Education of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), with the goal of offering a panoramic view of the presence and visibility of different languages in a specific university setting. The analysis of the linguistic landscape in a university environment is particularly relevant considering that, on the one hand, Castell, Cremades and Vanrell (2024) suggest it can serve as a space for language shift, while on the other hand, a recent study by Cremades, Maimó, Moreno, Sánchez and Solivellas (2025) indicates that the Faculty of Education at the UIB does not seem to function as such a space. Within this framework, the present study examines the languages found in various types of texts commonly seen in the public areas of any faculty, the positions that they occupy in these texts, and the roles that they play. In this regard, the study confirms the relevance of the two ideologies described by Woolard (2008) in understanding how Catalan and Spanish (as well as English) are legitimized in the Balearic Islands. Altogether, this allows for a critical reflection on the university’s sociolinguistic situation, which can serve as a starting point for future language planning efforts in the Balearic university context.
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