Performing Linguistic Identity and Integration: The Politics of Interpellation in the Catalonian Media

Audiences of Catalonian public television (Televisió de Catalunya) are regularly exposed to an astonishing abundance of messages with intercultural content. Television shows and promotional campaigns revolve around immigrant cultures and languages, foreign residents, mixed marriages, Catalans of ‘exotic’ extraction, international cuisine, Catalans traveling or residing abroad, and a multitude of programs and advertisements that showcase and promote the use of the Catalan language among locals and foreigners.