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The University of Mons launches the Carme Junyent Chair on Catalan Language and Society.
News | 27-06-2025
The chair aims to deepen the relationship between language and society from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, faithful to the legacy of Professor Carme Junyent.
The University of Mons in Wallonia has established the Carme Junyent Chair, a new academic space dedicated to the study of the Catalan language and its interactions with society. The project seeks to contribute to the knowledge and promotion of the Catalan language in an international context and to foster research in Catalan sociolinguistics, as well as the organization of seminars and academic events on a global scale. It will also promote initiatives for postgraduate and doctoral students, with the goal of creating a European-wide knowledge exchange network.
This academic proposal emphasizes the importance of sociolinguistics in the current linguistic context of the Occitan-Catalan region, reiterates the University of Mons’ commitment to the study of minoritized languages, and highlights the figure of Carme Junyent, one of the leading figures in Catalan sociolinguistics.
Carme Junyent, a leading figure in the study of linguistics
Dr. Carme Junyent (1955–2023) was a professor of General Linguistics at the University of Barcelona and a driving force behind the Study Group on Endangered Languages at the Faculty of Philology and Communication.
Junyent had a long career in scientific outreach in the field of endangered languages, language shift processes, and the values of linguistic diversity.
She founded and directed the Study Group on Endangered Languages (GELA) and the Group of Linguists for Diversity (GLiDi). She was also part of the expert committee consulted in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (1996) and was a member of the International Scientific Committee of Linguamón – House of Languages.
A frequent contributor to the media, Junyent authored an extensive body of work on the situation of world languages and linguistic diversity. Her recent publications include El futur del català depèn de tu (2020), El català, la llengua efervescent: 77 visions sobre el terreny (2021), and Som dones, som lingüistes, som moltes i diem prou (2022).
In 2019, she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Government of Catalonia in recognition of her commitment to the Catalan language.