Gabriel Rei-Doval

  • Associate Professor, Linguistics

Education

  • PhD, Galician Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela, 2001
  • MPhil, Galician Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela, 1999
  • BA, Galician Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 1990

Office Hours

On sabbatical leave 2025-26

Courses Taught

  • Linguistics 570 (U/G) – Issues in Bilingualism
  • Spanish 341 – Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
  • Spanish 446 – Hispanic Sociolinguistics
  • Spanish 545/703 – Multilingual Spain
  • Spanish 545/703 – Spanish in the United States
  • Spanish 545/703 – Language Contact in the Spanish-Speaking World
  • Portuguese 446 – The Portuguese-Speaking World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Teaching Interests

  • Linguistics 570 (U/G) – Issues in Bilingualism
  • Linguistics 430 (U/G) – Language and Society
  • General Linguistics

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Bilingualism and Language Contact
  • Historiography of Linguistics
  • Language Shift, Purism, and Planning
  • Galician Linguistics; Hispanic, Lusophone and Romance Linguistics

Related Activities

Selected Publications

1. Publications viewable on Academia.edu
2. Publications viewable on Research Gate
3. Creative writing: Viaxes sen Lee

Biographical Sketch

He has published fourteen books in Linguistics and one in creative writing. His research is based on multi-methodologies and cross-disciplinary approaches to sociolinguistics, language contact and bilingualism, and linguistic historiography. He has done research in language maintenance and shift, language policies, ideologies, and planning.

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