José María Sánchez Carrión

Who is José María Sánchez Carrión?

José María Sánchez Carrión is a Spanish linguist, specialised in Basque language, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. He is an associate member of Euskaltzaindia since 1983. Despite being the best known local academic proponent of reversing language shift measures, he has never held a stable university post in the Basque Country.

Nicknamed Txepetx, he is an Anglo-Germanic Philology graduate from the University of Salamanca and Basque Philology doctorate from the University of the Basque Country, he has served as a Spanish teacher in Scotland, scientific English teacher at the University of Granada, Basque teacher in a rural school of Navarre, and professor of modern languages and literature of Secondary Education in the Basque Autonomous Community and elsewhere in Spain.

His research on sociolinguistics, the theory of bilingualism and existential linguistics, includes the following works: El estado actual del vascuence en la provincia de Navarra [The current state of Basque language in Navarre ], "Bilingüismo, diglosia y contacto de lenguas" [Bilingualism, diglossia, and language contact], Lengua y pueblo [Language and people] with articles from 1977 originally published in Punto y Hora de Euskal Herria magazine, "El marco sociológico y espacial en una situación bilingüe" [The sociological and spatial context in a bilingual setting], and El espacio bilingüe [The bilingual space].