30.4449, Books: The Intricacy of Languages: Feliu, Fullana (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:28:05
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Intricacy of Languages: Feliu, Fullana (eds.)

 


Title: The Intricacy of Languages 
Series Title: IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 20  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.20 


Editor: Francesc Feliu
Editor: Olga Fullana

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261946 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261946 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261946 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204424 Pages: 436 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204424 Pages: 436 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204424 Pages: 436 Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction
of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic
reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity,
enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and making us
identify it with a social community and a territory, then it must be agreed
that languages are extremely complex entities.

The new linguistic diversity that cultural globalisation and recent population
movements have installed in most traditional linguistic territories has
probably put the ideology of the national language into a state of crisis and,
as a consequence, has made the ancient, intrinsic diversity of all languages
visible, at least to the extent that this is still possible. 

Nowadays, then, the old linguistic diversity of dialects, of parlances, of
local lexicons and the cultural forms that are reflected in these, of
varieties and previously unsuccessful linguistic entities has been given a new
opportunity in a world where the cohesion of societies and the welfare of
citizens must be guaranteed using all available means. Looked at this way, the
intricacy of languages may even open up an opportunity for local economic and
social development.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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