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Dr. Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà


Research interests

  • Language, mobilities and social inequality
  • Sociolinguistic construction of transnational identities 
  • Multilingualism in the workplace
  • Multilingualism in non-formal language education

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Research projects (direction)

Title

A critical historiographic analysis of discourses of language “rise” and “decline”: emergence, circulation and impact in (inter)national spaces

Duration

12.2023 - 12.2024

The goal of this research project is to examine language ideological debates throughout the period 1970-1990 in two international organisations, the Council of Europe and the European Union, from a critical sociolinguistic perspective. Their...

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Title

Humanitarians on the move

Multilingual requirements, transnational mobilities and moral ethos in the recruitment for the International Committee of the Red Cross

Duration

09.2015 - 09.2016

At the turn of the century, the globalized economy, the weight of international agencies and transnational migrations have increased the demand for multilingual competences in the workplace. In particular, humanitarian agencies must recruit...

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Research projects (collaboration)

Title

Tales from the field

Duration

01.2020 - 12.2030

The project offers a space for methodological reflections about critical ethnographic sociolinguistic research based on researchers’ experiences. On a dedicated website, the team makes available a collection of personal tales about specific...

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