De la «normalització» a la «diversitat» lingüística: cap a un enfocament global del contacte de llengües
[eng] The growing communication and interdependence of the planet's human groups are features of contemporary times that are causing an increase in language contact and a notable rise in the awareness of human cultural and linguistic diversity. This new situation brings into serious question th...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2000 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositório: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/198187 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/198187 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Multilingüisme Normalització lingüística Minorització (Lingüística) Política lingüística Sociolingüística Multilingualism Language standardization Minorization (Linguistics) Language policy Sociolinguistics |
| Resumo: | [eng] The growing communication and interdependence of the planet's human groups are features of contemporary times that are causing an increase in language contact and a notable rise in the awareness of human cultural and linguistic diversity. This new situation brings into serious question the ideological presuppositions that have sustained the organizational communication of humanity until now, particularly ideas of hierarchization and the undervaluing of the languages of politically and/or economically subordinated human groups. Basically, the problem of the new situation can be defined in terms of the following: a) the exponential growth of contact on a planetary scale, through political and economic channels and through technology and the media, and also through population movements from one cultural area to another, and b) the manifest disappearance of a large number of forms of speech in the most varied regions of the planet. This conspicuous trend towards the reduction of historically constructed linguistic diversity is a cause for great concern. These issues lead us to the necessity to gain in-depth knowledge of the substitution processes at work in the linguistic realm, in order to be able to see more clearly how they can be averted and/or reversed, at the same time admitting that it will probably be impossible to return to the former situations of the sociocultural habitats that fed the hitherto existing diversity for so long. The crux of the matter thus becomes how to maintain linguistic diversity in the framework of the general bi- or multilingualization of individuals and human societies. The continuity of linguistic diversity is tied in with the asymmetries of relative power between human communities in contact. Intervention for the maintenance of linguistic diversity is a clearly political act, as it is on this collective level that societies can influence a redress of present situations by attempting to alter, as appropriately as possible, the set of factors involved in the causation of the current negative dynamics. Coordinated international action is called for at every level, from the common organizations that humanity is beginning to build to the most local public bodies, to encourage an acute awareness of the crisis of linguistic diversity and make each level of government take the measures within its power to change inadequate present conditions. |
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