Introduction: Minority Languages and the Future of Europe

  • María Luz Suárez Castiñeira Chair of Galician Studies, University of Deusto, Spain
  • Diego Rivadulla Costa Universidade da Coruña, Spain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2471
Keywords: minority languages, linguistic rights, linguistic normalization, Catalan, Galician and Basque, digital languages

Abstract

The journal Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto (CED) / Deusto Journal of European Studies has published this special issue “Minority Languages and the Future of Europe” on the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Chair of Galician Studies at the University of Deusto in the current academic year 2021-2022. The issue includes eight articles by leading specialists who reflect on the current situation of the so-called minority languages in Europe and, in particular, on the present and future of Basque, Catalan and especially Galician, as closer cases in this context. In line with its interdisciplinary approach, the editors accepted proposals from different fields and perspectives, taking into account the social, legal or political dimensions, as well as the linguistic and cultural ones. The various analyses provided pay particular attention to issues such as language legislation, standardization, the language use of young people in particular, or the importance of digitization, among others.

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Author Biographies

María Luz Suárez Castiñeira, Chair of Galician Studies, University of Deusto, Spain

Professor at the University of Deusto. After graduating in English and German Philology from the Free University of Brussels, she received her PhD in Comparative European Literature at the University of the Basque Country (1992). Since then she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Deusto in Modern Languages, Modern Languages and Management, and International Relations as well as in the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Euroculture. She has done her research in the field of comparative literature, first, and later, since 2003, in the field of European Integration, focusing her study on its cultural dimension. She has also participated in several European projects around inter- and transcultural dialogue, the construction of European identity and the dimension of multilingualism and its relationship with the concept of European citizenship. Among other responsibilities, she has been vicedean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, director of the Institute of European Studies and director of the Department of International Relations and Humanities. Currently, she is actively involved in the editing process of the Journal Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto, of which she is deputy editor-in-chief. She has been the director of the Chair of Galician Studies since it was created at the University of Deusto.

Diego Rivadulla Costa, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Postdoctoral Researcher (Xunta de Galicia competitive postdoctoral grant) in the Galician Linguistic and Literary Research Group (ILLA) of the University of A Coruña. A Doctor in Literary Studies with an International Mention and Extraordinary Award from the same university, he was previously hired as a pre-doctoral student in the Department of Letters of the same university and as a lecturer in Galician language and literature at the University of Deusto, where he was in charge of the activities of the Chair of Galician studies since 2020. He was a visiting researcher at the EHEHI Casa de Velázquez (École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques) in Madrid, at Aarhus University (Denmark) and at the University of Lisbon. His fields of research are literary and cultural studies, with special attention to contemporary Galician literature, cultural memory studies and Iberian studies. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications in specialized journals and books, most of them on the subject of historical memory and the representation of the civil war and the Franco regime in Galician narrative and theater. He currently participates in the funded projects Recuperación do patrimonio teatral da Galiza 4 (1936-1973). Emigración, exilio e resistencia interior (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, PID2020-115649RB-I00) of the Universidade da Coruña and Memory Novels LAB: Laboratorio Digital de Novelas sobre Memoria Histórica Española(Generalitat Valenciana, GV/2021/183) of the Universitat de València.

Published
2022-07-22
How to Cite
Suárez Castiñeira, María Luz, and Diego Rivadulla Costa. 2022. “Introduction: Minority Languages and the Future of Europe”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 04 (July), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2471.
Issue
No. 04 (2022): SPECIAL ISSUE. Linguas minoritarias e futuro de Europa. Minority Languages and the Future of Europe
Section
Introduction

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