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BRIAN MOTT (Professor Honorífic de la UB, 15/06/2016) (mott@ub.edu)
Areas of interest: phonetics and phonology, dialectology, history of language, semantics, translation, grammar and writing
Main areas of research: Aragonese dialectology (Huesca), the speech of Miranda do Douro (north-east Portugal), English grammar, phonetics and lexicography, contrastive linguistics
Brian Mott lectured in Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Barcelona from 1972 to 2016 (University of Saragossa 1969-1972), where he gave courses in Phonetics and Phonology, Semantics, Translation and grammar. He was Coordinator of the Linguistics Section of the English Department from 1984 to 1990 and from 2007 to 2010, and a teacher in the independent University Language School (“Escola d’Idiomes Moderns”) for thirty years (English coordinator 1976-1980). From 2004 to 2010 he tutored on the Summer Course in English Phonetics at University College London, directed by Professor John Wells. He has an MA in Spanish Studies (Aberdeen, 1969) and a PhD in Spanish Dialectology (Barcelona, 1978).
Apart from Spanish and Catalan, which he speaks fluently, he also has a knowledge of some other languages, including French, German, Portuguese, Romanian and Serbian. His PhD is a study of the speech of a Spanish Pyrenean village bordering on France in the Province of Huesca, Aragon, and in 2020 he published the second edition of his anthology of Aragonese speech varieties (Nuevas voces de Aragón). In 2015 he published the second edition of his Chistabino (Aragonese) dictionary (Nuevo diccionario chistabino-castellano) and he is now preparing a new edition of this, as well as a grammar of a western variety of Catalan spoken in La Franja. He has also studied the Mirandese dialect spoken in North East Portugal.
He has published a total of some twenty books and many articles on all the above areas of specialization.
His main extra-academic activity is music. He is a jazz enthusiast and has played bass and sung in various bands.
For music samples: https:/soundcloud.com/brian-mott-357648132
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