Continuity and change: language ideologies of Catalan university students

Catalonia is an interesting site for language ideology research several reasons. It a multilingual and multicultural territory, where both Catalan Spanish enjoy the status of co-official language. Adding to this, over course last two decades there has been growing movement that called independence from Spain, one which frequently places linguistic concerns at its centre. Against this backdrop, we report on project qualitatively examines ideologies university students in period after 2017 referendum. Specifically, conducted semi-structured interviews with 33 undergraduate attending three universities wider Barcelona area. We examined cohort through theoretical lens authority, particular, concepts anonymity authenticity. Two central themes emerged data analysis: ‘Catalan: “lingered” authenticity?’ ‘Spanish: glocal anonymity’. The findings reveal complex array toward Spanish. Furthermore, ever-changing socio-political sociolinguistic landscape Catalonia, maintain qualitative methods can act as powerful tool when examining cases multilingualism.