| Title: | Ecology, Language, and Pragmatics |
| Author: | Jacob L. Mey |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXIII (1-2), Section Theoretical Frameworks Revisited, p. 9-19 Speech Acts across Time and Space / Actes de language à travers le temps et l’espace Edited by Andra Vasilescu and Cameron Taylor |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | Much of the current discourse on the ecology of language has centered around the problem of how to ensure that languages thrive, are kept ‘alive’. One of the dangers of a purely object-oriented ecology is that is can be misused and turned against the very users it is meant to promote and protect. A proper view on linguistic ecology takes the language users into the equation: no language can survive without survivors. However, many linguists have often been mere interested recording and documenting the languages they studied than bothering about the social a material conditions that have to e in place for a language and its users to thrive. A useful plan for a discussion on linguistic ecology should rest on Alwin Fill’s ‘four pillars’ for successful and ecologically acceptable language use: interaction, diversity, a holistic approach, and dialectics. |
| Key words: | linguistic ecology, endangered languages, dialect maintenance, linguistic pragmatics, Alwin Fill |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 0 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 61, 2018). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2018 | LR, LXVIII (1), 3-159 | 2019 |
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