Language endangerment and revitalisation as elements of regimes of truth: shifting terminology to shift perspective
| Autor: | James Costa |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language language revitalisation social theory Education Terminology External conflict 0601 history and archaeology Sociology [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics sociolinguistics 060201 languages & linguistics 060101 anthropology Perspective (graphical) discourses of endan- germent 06 humanities and the arts [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology 16. Peace & justice Linguistics language endangerment Homogeneous regimes of truth 0602 languages and literature Minority language Sociolinguistics Social theory |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2013, 34 (4), pp.317-331. ⟨10.1080/01434632.2013.794807⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0143-4632 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01434632.2013.794807⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; This paper seeks to explore how the language endangerment/revitalisation discourse was gradually established as a new Foucauldian regime of truth. I characterise this regime of truth as one that not only essentialises the link between language and community, but also as one that constructs communities as homogeneous and seeks to minimise internal and external conflict. Through the example of how this discourse is becoming dominant in France, I then suggest that there are alternative ways of looking at minority language processes, and draw on works developed in France in the 1980s in the Occitan school of sociolinguistics to propose an approach centred on social actors and processes rather than on languages. I thus propose that one way of analysing (and responding to) 'language endangerment' may reside in looking at it from a different perspective such as the one developed by Robert Lafont around the Occitan case. |
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