Papers and Lectures Presented

  1. “A planificación ortográfica: algúns apuntamentos metodolóxicos para o caso galego”. I International Seminar on Language Planning. Council for Galician Culture, Santiago 1991. 
  2. “Datos sobre o Mapa Sociolingüístico de Galicia”. Simposi de Demolingüística. Institut de Sociolingüística Catalana of Generalitat de Catalunya. Tortosa 1993. 
  3. “A situación da lingua galega na comarca de Ferrol”. Galician Language Colloquium. CEFOCOP – Galician Government (Education Department). Ferrol 1993. [Invited] 
  4. “Purismo e planificación léxica na lingua galega”. Colloquium for Language Planning in Galicia (participation at the round table “Lexical Standardization”). Council for Galician Culture. Santiago 1993. 
  5. Symposium “Lingua e medios”. Presider of the round table “The linguistic model for mass–media”. Center for Studies “Lingua e Empresa”. Santiago 1993. [Invited] 
  6. “As actitudes ante a comunicación publicitaria en lingua galega”. Paper at the I Symposium “Vender en Galicia, vender en galego”. Centro de Estudos ‘Lingua e Empresa’ & Association of Young Contractors. Ferrol 1993. [Invited] 
  7. “The sociolinguistic Map of Galicia”. Colloquium on Minority-Language Population-Censures and Speech-Community Surveys. Compass, European Boureau for Lesser-Used Languages & University of Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire, UK, 1993 (co-authored). 
  8. “Estudio demolingüístico da competencia en galego: unha perspectiva sincrónica”. I Congrès de Lingüística General. Universitat de València. Valencia, 1994. 
  9. “Towards an Integrated Typology of Linguistic Competence in the Spain’s Languages. The Galician case”. 5th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology. University of Queensland. Brisbane, Australia, 1994. 
  10. “Lingua habitual e opción política en Galicia”. IV Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. University of Oxford. Oxford, 1994. 
  11. “A situación sociolingüística de Galicia”. IV Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. University of Oxford. Oxford, 1994 (co-authored). 
  12. “The importance of Demolinguistic Studies in Minoritized Languages for Language Planning in the European Community. A Galician Perspective”. II International Colloquium Languages in the European Community. University Ramon Llull & University of Amsterdam. Barcelona 1994. 
  13. “Aproximación ó Mapa Sociolingüístico de Galicia: a súa contribución ó proceso de normalización lingüística no ensino”. Colloquium for coordinators and members of Language Planning Teams. Galician Government (Department of Education). Pontevedra 1995. [Invited] 
  14. “El estatus del gallego: presente y futuro”. XII Conference of the International Conference of Hispanists. University of Birmingham. Birmingham (UK), August 1995. [Invited] 
  15. “Historia e actualidade da sociolingüística galega: das actitudes do profesorado ó MSG”. I International Conference “A lingua galega: historia e actualidade”. Instituto da Lingua Galega-University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago 1996. 
  16. “Mantemento e recuperación lingüística na escola: unha visión desde o Mapa Sociolingüístico de Galicia”. VIII Colloquium of Galician Language and Literature. Asociación Socio–Pedagóxica Galega–CIG. Santiago 1998. [Invited] 
  17. “O galego na publicidade dos medios impresos”. Symposium “Galician Language in advertising creativity”. University of Vigo-School of Social Sciences. Pontevedra 1998. [Invited] 
  18. “Interpretación da situación sociolingüística galega” Course The Sociolinguistic Situation of Galicia. Association of Language Planning Technicians. Santiago de Compostela 1998. [Invited] 
  19. “Obxectivos de normalización desde as institucións”. I Colloquium of Galician Sociolinguistics. MEU – University of Santiago de Compostela. Santiago 1998. [Invited] 
  20. “Current Situation of the Galician Language”, in Language Planning Workshop. University College of Cork (Ireland). February 25, 2000. [Invited] 
  21. “A sociolingüística galega 1967–1977: unha aproximación historiográfica”. VI International Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. Havana, Cuba, April 18, 2000. 
  22. “Language in the EU: the Galician Case”. Paper at University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), Department of Spanish and Portuguese. April 24, 2000. [Invited] 
  23. “Galician Sociolinguistics in the Hispanic Context: A Historiographical Approach (1967–1997)”. Paper at UCSB. April 27, 2000. [Invited] 
  24. “Emotion and Galician Poetry”. Lecture given at UCSB. April 26, 2000. [Invited] 
  25. “A traducción castelán–galego”, in Symposium A traducción no eido institucional. University of Vigo, May 24, 2000. [Invited] 
  26. “An Overview of Galician Sociolinguistics (1967-1967)”. International Symposium Galicia: a Language, a People. The University of Birmingham, September 28, 2001. 
  27. “Galician Sociolinguistics in a Hispanic context: An Overview”. Hispanic Research Seminars. University College, Cork, Ireland. December 7, 2001. [Invited] 
  28. “Sociology of Language and Pragmatics in Contemporary Galician Sociolinguistics: Complementarity or Rivalry”. First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. State University of New York, Albany. March 14-15, 2002. 
  29. “The Dialogue between Sociology of Language and Pragmatics in Contemporary Galician Sociolinguistics”. First UK Symposium on Hispanic Linguistics. University of Surrey-Guildford, April 14-16, 2002. 
  30. “Galician Sociolinguists in the Hispanic Linguistic Tradition: an Overview”. Graduate Seminar in Spanish Studies. University of Oxford (UK). Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Taylor Institution. February 18, 2003. [Invited] 
  31. “A sociolingüística galega no contexto hispánico: conexións e influencias”. VII Congreso Internacional de Estudios Galegos. Asociación Internacional de Estudios Galegos, Barcelona. May 28-31, 2003. 
  32. “Language Maintenance and Shift in Galician Urban Families”. 8th Forum for Iberian Studies: Bilingualism in the Iberian Peninsula. University of Oxford, June 7, 2003. 
  33. “A lingua galega no medio urbano: unha visión desde a macrosociolingüística”. VII Encontros para a Normalización Lingüística. Consello da Cultura Galega. Santiago de Compostela, October 23-24, 2003. [Invited] 
  34. “Monolingüismo vs. bilingüismo no ensaio sociolingüístico galego: poder simbólico, mitoloxía ou realidade?”. International Symposium of Galician Studies. University of Birmingham (UK). March 2004. [Invited] 
  35. “O ensaio sociolingüístico en Galicia na 2ª metade do século XX: orixes, polémicas e coordenadas”. Xornadas Mar por Medio. Concello de Ribadeo. August 2004. [Invited] 
  36. “Social Response, Galician Style? The Aftermath of the ‘Prestige’ Disaster”. University of California-Santa Barbara, IHC. November 23, 2004. [Invited] 
  37. “The Galician language: Current Sociolinguistic Situation”. Lecture given at University of California-Santa Barbara, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. November 23, 2004. [Invited] 
  38. “Galician Sociolinguistics in the Luso-Hispanic Tradition in the Late 20th Century”. UWM Colloquium in Language, Literature and Linguistics. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, May 5, 2005. 
  39. “Iberia airlines? Os estudos galegos nas tradicións ibérica e luso-hispánica dos países anglófonos”. X Forum for Iberian Studies. Trinity College, Oxford. June 3-4, 2005. 
  40. “Sociolingüística gallega y sociolingüística luso-hispánica: conexiones e influencias”. XIV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina’. Monterrey, Mexico, October 17-21, 2005. 
  41. “Entre Galicia y Nuevo León, mar por medio: hacia una historia de la sociolingüística (luso)hispánica”. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico. March 23, 2006. [Invited] 
  42. “O purismo lingüístico, unha doenza superable?”, in Simposium ‘Ideoloxías e diversidade lingüística’. Fundación Carlos Casares. Vigo, June 21, 2006. [Invited] 
  43. “Perspectivas dos estudos galegos mar por medio: os Estados Unidos e as Illas Británicas”. VIII Internacional Conference of Galician Studies. Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), September 12, 2006. 
  44. “Teaching History of the Spanish language at UWM”. Roundtable “Teaching the History of the Spanish Language”: 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11, 2007. 
  45. “The future of the Galician Language”. Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución. University of Vigo, Spain. June 28, 2007. [Invited] 
  46. “Language shift and language planning in urban Galicia”. Symposium “Sociology of Language and Language Planning in Galicia”. Graduate Center, CUNY (PhD program in Luso-Hispanic Literature and Linguistics). New York, November 2, 2007. [Invited] 
  47. “Studying Spanish Today”. Presentation for the Sigma Delta Pi Initiation Ceremony. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, November 30, 2007. 
  48. “On the history of Sociolinguistics in Brazil and Mexico”, in UWM Colloquium in Language, Literature and Linguistics. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, May 1, 2008. 
  49. “Cara a unha historia da sociolingüística en América Latina: algúns apuntamentos sobre o Brasil e México”. XV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL). Montevideo, August 18-21 2008. 
  50. Response to Anxo Lorenzo’s paper “A sociolingüística de Galicia”, at the Foro de Debate “Sociedades Plurilingües: da identidade á diversidade”. Consello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela. June 20, 2008. [Invited] 
  51. “Multilingualism in Contemporary Spain: Fact or Fiction”. Celebrating 30 years of Multilingual and Multicultural Spain. College of Charleston, South Carolina. October 10, 2008. [Invited] 
  52. “Bilingualism and Language Shift in Urban Galicia”. UIC Bilingualism Forum 2009, University of Illinois-Chicago, May 1, 2009 [keynote speaker]. 
  53. “Libertad sin ira? Política y políticas lingüísticas en la Galicia actual”. In Constitutional Spain II, Democracy and Culture, 1978-2010. Symposium at the University of California, Santa Barbara. February 12, 2010 [invited]. 
  54. “Anger and Language Choice in Galician-Spanish Bilingual Family Interactions”. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 15, 2010. 
  55. “O prestixio social da lingua galega” in Foro Mugardos Lingua e Sociedade. Fundación Casares & Concello de Mugardos. Mugardos (Galicia, Spain), October 8, 2010. 
  56. “Purismo e ideoloxías lingüísticas no contexto galego: apuntamentos preliminares para un estudo necesario”, in Simposio Contacto de linguas, hibrididade, cambio: contextos, procesos e consecuencias. Facultade de Filoloxía-University of Santiago de Compostela, November 2, 2010. 
  57. “Language Discourses in Contemporary Galicia: Political Use and Manipulation of ‘Libertad sin ira’ in Spanish Perspective”, in Language Ideologies, Policies, and Discourse in Contemporary Galicia: A Cross-Dimensional Analysis, MLA Annual Conference 2011, Session 761 (Special Session), January 9, 2011. 
  58. “Language Discourses in Contemporary Galicia: Political Use and Manipulation of ‘Libertad sin ira’ in Spanish Perspective”. Paper at University of California-Santa Barbara (Department of Spanish & Portuguese). January 11, 2011. 
  59. “La investigación sobre el multilingüismo en España: objetivos y metodología de estudios macrosociolingüísticos y censos lingüísticos”. 66th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington KY, April 19, 2013. 
  60. “O pobo é quen máis ordena?: Ideologías puristas y control de la lengua estándar en el gallego actual”. Special Session «Language Purism, Contact, Hybridity, and Literacy in Hispanic Societies» at the 55th Midwest Modern Language Conference. Milwaukee, November 7-10 2013. 
  61. “O povo é quem mais ordena? Ideologies, control, and language purism in the configuration of Contemporary Standard Galician”. Portuguese Linguistics in the United States, University of Georgia, Athens, November 14-16 2013: http://portugueselinguistics.wordpress.com.  
  62. “Language Standardization, Purism, and Ideologies: a Historiographical Approach to Galician Grammar and Lexicography in the 19th Century” (written in collaboration with Ernesto González-Seoane). 7th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. UW-Madison, April 3-5, 2014. 
  63. “Purism, Authority and Language Control in Luso-Hispanic Languages: Metalanguage and Discourse on Castilian-related Features in Contemporary Galician Linguistics”. Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. National University of Ireland, Galway. April 14-16, 2014. 
  64. “O povo é quem mais ordena? Presence and Misrepresentation of Zeca’s Imaginary in Contemporary Galician Linguistics”. Portugal and the World: on the 40th Anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. UWM-Portuguese Program. April 23, 2014. 
  65. “Galician Studies at and from UW-Milwaukee”. Presente e Futuro dos Estudos Galegos nos EE.UU. (roundtable “A coordinación entre CEG e investigadores”). City University of New York, Graduate Center. April 26, 2014. [Invited] 
  66. “En galego estamos no mundo: facendo acorda-la lingua de Galicia na escola” [In Galician we’re in the World: Helping the Awakening of Galicia’s Language at School”]. Roundtable ‘The Future of the Galician Language is at School’, organized by Galiza co galego/Avoaescola. Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, June 13, 2014. [Invited].  
  67. Towards a History of the Real Academia Galega: Contemporary Research on Galician Sociolinguistics and Lexicography”. 13th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes & Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, August 25-29, 2014.   
  68. “On the Current Situation of Luso-Hispanic Linguistics in the United States: the Case of Sociolinguistics”. 3rd Symposium on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics (III SLHL), University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 7-8 2014. Keynote Lecture [Invited]  
  69. “A sociolingüística hispánica nos EEUU: unha historia preliminar” [Hispanic Sociolinguistics in the US: a Preliminary History]. Lecture at the Instituto da Lingua Galega, University of Santiago de Compostela. November 25, 2014. [Invited]  
  70. “Os estudos galegos na Modern Language Association” [Galician Studies at the Modern Language Association]. Seminario Internacional Estudos Galegos/ Estudos Ibéricos alén das fronteiras [International Symposium Galician Studies/ Iberian Studies beyond the borders]. Council for Galician Culture, Santiago de Compostela, December 17-19 2014. Via skype. [Invited] 
  71. “O optimismo é revolucionario. Novos horizontes para os estudos galegos nun mundo globalizado”. XI Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. Buenos Aires, April 6-8, 2015 [invited]. 
  72. “Ira e elección de lingua nas interaccións familiares bilingües galego-castelán en Galicia”. XI Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. Buenos Aires, April 6-8, 2015. 
  73. “The Modern Language Association and Galician Studies in North America”. Symposium Galician Studies North America: Creating Community, Bridging Gaps. UW-Milwaukee, April 24, 2015. 
  74. Response to “Translation, Bilingualism, Glocalization: New Linguistic Approaches in Galician Studies”. MLA Annual Convention. Austin, TX, January 6-9 2016. 
  75. “A lingua e a lingüística galegas nos Estados Unidos: algunhas consideracións historiográficas e epistemolóxicas”, II North American Symposium of Galician Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, April 20-23, 2016. 
  76. “Spanish in the United States”. Presentation at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, School of Foreign Languages. Delhi, October 13, 2016 [invited].  
  77. “Spanish Language around the World: Social History”. Presentation at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, School of Foreign Languages. Delhi, October 13, 2016 [invited]. 
  78. “Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization in a minority (post)colonial setting: the Galician case”. 20th Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. University of Hyderabad, India. December 10, 2016. 
  79. “What is Galician in Galician Studies”, as part of a roundtable with the same name at the Annual MLA Conference. Philadelphia, January 2017. 
  80. “A Response to Language Maintenance and Change in Languages in Contact”, The Standardization of Galician, roundtable at the 2017 Annual MLA Conference. Philadelphia, January 2017. 
  81. “Hacia una historia de la Real Academia Galega: un análisis historiográfico de la investigación sociolingüística y lexicográfica de la RAG (1982-2012)”, in Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Hispanic Linguistics Section), April 20-22, 2017. 
  82. “Purismo, lusismo e autonomismo na lingüística galega contemporánea: unha aproximación historiográfica”, in 4th International Conference of Historical Linguistics (CILH 4), University of Lisbon, July 17-21, 2017. 
  83. “Teaching Academic Content in Hispanic Linguistics in the United States”. North East Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, April 2018. 
  84. “La enseñanza de la lingüística hispánica en Estados Unidos: retos y oportunidades”. 4th International Colloquium on Languages, Cultures, Identity in Schools and Society. Soria, Spain, July 4-6 2018. 
  85. “Galician Culture: Bridging Tradition and Modernity”. Lecture in South Dakota State University (Brookings), South Dakota State University. September 4, 2018. [Invited]. 
  86. “Galician language in the Iberian Peninsula”. Presentation in Western Oregon University. Monmouth OR, October 10, 2018. [Invited] 
  87. “Language Contact and Language Standardization: the Galician Case”. University of Colorado at Boulder. October 16, 2018. [Invited] 
  88. “Cara a unha socioloxía do coñecemento dos estudos galegos en Norteamérica: unha análise desde o inquérito MLA Galician 2014”. 3rd North American Symposium of Galician Studies. Denver, October 19, 2018. 
  89. “Epistemoloxía da lingüística galega: unha ollada desde USA” [Epistemology of Galician Linguistics: a view from Galicia]. 3rd North American Symposium of Galician Studies. Denver, October 19, 2018. 
  90. “Galician Language and Culture in the United States”. Lecture in Middlebury College. Middlebury VT, October 30, 2018 [invited]. 
  91. “Galician language in Spain”. Presented at the University of California-Irvine. November 14, 2018 [Invited] 
  92. “Top-Down and Bottom-Up Language Policies in Galicia: Can School Alone Reverse Language Shift?” 2019 MLA Annual Conference, Chicago January 6, 2019. 
  93. Language Maintenance and Shift in Urban Spaces in Contemporary Galicia. Presented in Urban Spaces, Creative Places: A Blueprint for the Humanities in the City. Organized by the Center for the Advancement of the Humanities, Marquette University, February 14, 2019. 
  94. “Estandarización do galego e purismo” [Standardization of Galician and Purism]. Symposium  Estándar, norma e variación: procesos, problemas e perspectivas. Instituto da Lingua Galega, Univesity of Santiago de Compostela, February 22, 2021 [invited]. 
  95. “Textos introductorios a la lingüística hispánica en Norteamérica ayer y hoy”. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 23, 2022. 
  96. “Los manuales introductorios de lingüística hispánica en Norteamérica: diseño curricular, teoría, pedagogía”. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Arizona State University, November 4, 2022, online. 
  97. “Galician Studies in the US with a Cuban influence.” Presentation at the Symposium From Havana to New York: the Footprints of Galicianness, Florida International University, Miami, June 8 2023 [invited]. 
  98. “Os lingüistas como falantes: as ideoloxías sobre o contacto galego-castelán na normativa oficial e o reintegracionismo”, XV International Conference of General Linguistics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, June 14-16 2023. 
  99. “Goa through the Eyes of a Galician Linguist” Presentation (online) at the UWM Clube Lusófono, October 3, 2023 
  100. “Viaxes sen Lee, unha síntese ciberliteraria galego-americana.” Presentation at the 4th North American Symposium of Galician Studies, Texas Tech U, Lubbock October 20, 2023 
  101. “A avaliación do contacto lingüístico galego-castelán de arriba-abaixo e de abaixo-arriba: un contraste necesario”, Simposio ILG 2023: Contacto de linguas: identidades e ideoloxías lingüísticas. Santiago de Compostela, November 28-30 2023 (online). 
  102. “De Mitteleuropa a Mittelamérica: escribindo en galego desde a cultura e paisaxe estadounidenses o proxecto Viaxes sen Lee”, XIV Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. Universidade do Minho, Braga, April 18 2024 (online) 
  103. “Contacto de lenguas y purismo lingüístico: el caso gallego”, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington KY, April 18 2024 (online). 
  104. “A posición académica dos estudos galegos: unha visión contrastiva norteamericana/galega”, XIV Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. Universidade do Minho, Braga, April 19 2024 (online). 
  105. “Viaxes sen Lee: una propuesta narrativa desde la autoficción viajera”. 34th International Conference of Hispanic Literature and Studies (CILH). Donostia, Spain, June 27, 2024. 
  106. “La iniciación a la lingüística hispánica en Norteamérica: retos y oportunidades”. 34th International Conference of Hispanic Literature and Studies (CILH): Donostia, Spain, June 27, 2024. 
  107. “Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in the United States”, Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers. Appleton WI, November 2, 2024. 
  108. “Travels without Lee: a Galician-English Translation in Motion”, Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Palm Springs CA, November 9, 2024. 
  109. “Introducing Hispanic Linguistics in North America: Challenges and Opportunities”. Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Palm Springs CA, November 9, 2024.