User:DavidAndrewCullen/Isidor Marí Mayans

Isidor Marí Mayans (Ibiza, April 4, 1949) is an Ibizan university professor and sociolinguist.

He graduated in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona in 1972 and started his academic career teaching in the Balearic Islands' Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (1972-1980). During this time, he became head of the Department of Catalan Language and Literature and was directly involved in Catalan being introduced in the Balearic Islands' education system. Initially, he was interested in popular culture. Subsequently, we would go on to focus on language planning and sociolinguistics.

Between 1980 and 1996, he worked at the Government of Catalonia's Department of Culture, as head of the Language Advisory Service (1980-1988) and as deputy director general of Language Policy (1989-1996). Among other projects, he promoted the Digui, digui... course and the Termcat Centre for Terminology, which he headed from 1988 to 1997. He has been a member of the Philological Section of the Institute of Catalan Studies Institute of Catalan Studies. In 1996, he joined the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya as dean of its Faculty of Humanities and Languages. In 2007, he was awarded the Lupa d'Or Prize by the Catalan Sociolinguistics Association. From 2010 to 2014, he was president of the Philological Section of the Institute of Catalan Studies. He is also a member of the Plataforma per la Llengua's Advisory Board.

Aside from his interest in language, he is also a musician. He has been a member of the groups Isidor i Joan (1965-1966), Uc (1974-1985) and, since 1999, Falsterbo Marí. He has also performed solo.

In 2017, he was a candidate for Junts per Catalunya for Barcelona in the elections for the Catalan Parliament. Before that, he had been a candidate for the Spanish Senate as part of a leftist bloc for Ibiza and Formentera in the 1979 Spanish general elections.

Discography

 * Uc


 * 1974: Cançons d'Eivissa
 * 1976: En aquesta illa tan pobra
 * 1979: Una ala sobre el mar


 * Falsterbo Marí


 * 2000: Salta un ocell
 * 2002: Cor de crom


 * Solo


 * 2006: Ansa per ansa
 * 2013: Serà molt fort - 14 cover versions of Bob Dylan