The Language praxi is the URV’s online style guide. It has been designed as a reference tool to help the university community produce high-quality texts, using consistent linguistic criteria and a functional language model.
It offers guidance on grammar and style, orthotypography, administrative language, and writing. Most of the entries refer to Catalan, although some sections also include guidelines for Spanish and English (and there is a multilingual institutional nomenclature).
The content can be accessed via the menu or by using the search tool, which allows searches for words related to users' queries.
Credits
Servei Lingüístic i de Publicacions de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Campus Catalunya
Avinguda de Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona
llengues(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
- Coordinator: Jordi de Bofarull
- Consultants: John Bates, Christian Brassington, Jordi de Bofarull, Joel Fernández, Jordi Ginebra, Anna Montserrat, José Antonio Moreno, Xavier Rull, Arantxa Tèvar
- Collaborators: Yaiza de la Cruz, Ángel Huete, Judith Sánchez, Mariona Savall, Marina Troyano, Bernat Vellvé
The Praxi incorporates adaptacions of content from interuniversitary products in which the Language and Publications Service has participated, such as the Multilingual criteria for equality-focused texts, the Linguistic recommendations for social media at universitis or the 20 recommendations for writing well.
The Language praxi is the property of the Language and Publications Service of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Its contents are under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence, which means they can be shared and adapted freely provided that their authorship is acknowledged and that they are shared under the same type of licence.
The project has received an INTERLINGUA grant from the Catalan government.
Editions of the Language Praxi
- 1999: paper edition of the Praxi lingüística I. Convencions (coord.: Jordi de Bofarull; authors: Jordi de Bofarull, Jordi Ginebra and Arantxa Tèvar)
- 2001: paper edition of the Praxi lingüística II. Documents administratius (coord.: Jordi de Bofarull; autors: Jordi de Bofarull and Anna Montserrat)
- 2004: online edition of the first two volumes
- 2005: paper edition of the Praxi lingüística III. Criteris gramaticals i d'estil (autor: Jordi Ginebra)
- 2024: updated online version of the last three volumes, with new content about Catalan, English and Spanish