Pau Francesch Sabate

Pau Francesch Sabaté is a Lecturer in Catalan Studies at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. He holds a PhD in Catalan Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies (Universitat de Barcelona), a BA in Political Science (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and a MA in Philosophy and Human Rights (Universitat de Barcelona). His research focuses on linguistic corpora applied to literary translation analysis, pragmatic ambiguity in intercultural contexts, and Catalan marked word order structures. He has taught at institutions including the University of Birmingham (2022-2023) and Universitat de Barcelona (2020-2021).

• Teaching roles include Catalan language/culture, grammar, translation, and FHS papers on Catalan poetry/prose and modern literature.
• Key research interests: translation pragmatics, corpus-based analysis, Catalan syntax-semantics interface, L2 pedagogy.

Recent work explores prototypical contexts for right dislocation in literary translation, pragmatic ambiguity in translated texts, and prosodic analysis of Catalan quantified phrase fronting using oral corpora.