in relation to Catalonian politics. Woolard provides a framework to be used on the analysis of linguistic authorities and applies it to the politics of language in Catalonia. She then analyzes how this general framework could be used in analyzing language ideologies in other contexts. Woolard investigates the intersections between language and politics by building on her research relating to how language acquires authority in the public eye. She demonstrates that ideologies of authenticity and anonymity pare underpinned by sociolinguistic naturalism. She argues that Catalan speakers are shifting towards innovative linguistic practices that differ from the naturalistic ideologies. Woolard also looks at the coverage from the United States on Catalonia and the media's 'imbalanced' portrayal. Woolard then looks at how the media's coverage of language and politics is limited by what she calls "mainstream and unionist Spanish media." Woolard's book won the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize in 2017. Selected publications 1989. Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1992. Identitat i contacte de llengües a Barcelona. Barcelona: Edicions de la Magrana. Bambi Schieffelin, Kathryn Woolard and Paul Kroskrity (eds). 1998. Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory New York: Oxford University Press. Susan Gal and Kathryn Woolard. 2001. Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing. 2016. Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. References American ethnographers Linguists from the United States Women linguists UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of California, San Diego faculty Living people 1950 births People from Wellsville, New York Catalan language