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Glottopolitics
Glottopolitics is a sociolinguistic concept coined by Jean-Baptiste Marcellesi and Louis Guespin. It may be defined as any action taken by society to manage language interaction. Glottopolitics is constantly at work; it is a continuum that ranges from minuscule acts to considerable interventions, ultimately concerning language itself: promotion, prohibition, change of status, etc. There can be no social community without glottopolitics.Guespin L., 1985, « Introduction. Matériaux pour une glottopolitique » dans ''Cahiers de linguistique sociale'' n°7, Presses de l’université de Rouen, p. 14-32, ici p. 21-22 It is a social practice from which no one can escape (people "do glottopolitics without knowing it", whether they are ordinary citizens or ministers of the economy). See also * Glottophobia * Shibboleth A shibboleth ( ; ) is any custom or tradition—usually a choice of phrasing or single word—that distinguishes one group of people from another. Historically, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glottophobia
Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is the unfair treatment of people based upon their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, such as their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied words), their modality, and their syntax. For example, an Occitan speaker in France will probably be treated differently from a French speaker. Based on a difference in use of language, a person may automatically form judgments about another person's wealth, education, social status, character or other traits, which may lead to discrimination. This has led to public debate surrounding localisation theories, likewise with overall diversity prevalence in numerous nations across the West. Linguistic discrimination was at first considered an act of racism. In the mid-1980s, linguist Tove Skutnabb-Kangas captured the idea of language-based discrimination as li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shibboleth
A shibboleth ( ; ) is any custom or tradition—usually a choice of phrasing or single word—that distinguishes one group of people from another. Historically, shibboleths have been used as passwords, ways of self-identification, signals of loyalty and affinity, ways of maintaining traditional segregation, or protection from threats. It has also come to mean a moral formula held tenaciously and unreflectingly, or a taboo. Origin The term originates from the Hebrew word (), which means the part of a plant containing grain, such as the ear of a stalk of wheat or rye; or less commonly (but arguably more appropriately) 'flood, torrent'. Biblical account The modern use derives from an account in the Hebrew Bible, in which pronunciation of this word was used to distinguish Ephraimites, whose dialect used a different first consonant. The difference concerns the Hebrew letter '' shin'', which is now pronounced as (as in ''shoe''). In the Book of Judges chapter 12, after the inhab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sociolinguistic
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive, scientific study of how language is shaped by, and used differently within, any given society. The field largely looks at how a language changes between distinct social groups, as well as how it varies under the influence of assorted cultural norms, expectations, and contexts. Sociolinguistics combines the older field of dialectology with the social sciences in order to identify regional dialects, sociolects, ethnolects, and other sub-varieties and styles within a language, as well as the distinctions and variations inside each of these. A major branch of linguistics since the second half of the 20th century, sociolinguistics is closely related to and can partly overlap with pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and sociology of language, the latter focusing on the effect of language back on society. Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation with anthropology can be observed in studies of how language varieties differ between groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langages
''Langages : Revue internationale des sciences du langage'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of linguistics published by Armand Colin Armand Colin is a French publishing house founded in 1870 by Auguste Armand Colin. It specializes in publishing works concerning human sciences, economics and education. Among its best-known publications are the "U" collection begun in 1968, and .... Founded in 1966 by R. Barthes, J. Dubois, A.-J. Greimas, B. Pottier, B. Quemada and N. Ruwet, the journal ''Langages'' makes available to a multidisciplinary scientific community, without theoretical or methodological exclusivity, the results of contemporary research carried out in psycholinguistics, automatic language processing, didactics, translation, etc. References External links * * Linguistics journals French-language journals Quarterly journals {{ling-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
