{"id":7912,"date":"2019-11-26T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cuscub.wordpress.com\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:56:01","slug":"albert-bastardas-publica-from-language-shift-to-language-revitalization-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/albert-bastardas-publica-from-language-shift-to-language-revitalization-and-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Bastardas publica \u00abFrom language shift to language revitalization and sustainability\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albert Bastardas-Boada acaba de publicar, a Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona<\/a>, From language shift to language revitalization and sustainability. A complexity approach to linguistic ecology<\/em><\/a>. Aquest llibre, concebut origin\u00e0riament des d’una perspectiva ecol\u00f2gica i hol\u00edstica (actualment coneguda amb el nom de compl\u00e8xica<\/em>), \u00e9s una traducci\u00f3 a l’angl\u00e8s, amb actualitzacions menors, d’un volum que l’autor va publicar en catal\u00e0 el 1996 amb el t\u00edtol Ecologia de les lleng\u00fces: medi, contactes i din\u00e0mi<\/a><\/em>ca socioling\u00fc\u00edstica<\/a><\/em>, juntament amb alguns articles que va escriure posteriorment. L’objectiu de l’obra, tant abans com ara, \u00e9s proporcionar una millor comprensi\u00f3 dels fen\u00f2mens socioling\u00fc\u00edstics que sorgeixen en el contacte de lleng\u00fces, especialment pel que fa a l’\u00e0rea catalanoparlant. Les q\u00fcestions que s’hi exposen, malgrat que ja ha passat cert temps, continuen tenint \"<em>From<\/a>vig\u00e8ncia.<\/p>\n

En aquest enlla\u00e7<\/a> hi podeu trobar la taula de continguts i el prefaci de la publicaci\u00f3. Us en deixem, tamb\u00e9, una breu sinopsi, escrita pel mateix autor:<\/p>\n

Drawing on the perspectives more inspired by systems thinking and complexity and yet
\nobviously not ignoring advances in bio-ecology itself, this book is devoted to conceive of an
\necology of language contact grounded in a psycho-sociologico-political approach that is
\nmultidimensional and dynamic, and can give an account of the intertwinings and
\ninterdependencies of levels and factors that influence and\/or co-determine the evolution of
\nlanguage forms and varieties involved. This interdisciplinary collaboration, inspired in a general, holistic approach, is the best way of being able to grasp the phenomena arising in the evolution of situations of language contact. This approach, like the constitution of a general (bio)ecology, steers clear of fragmentation and specialization by taking the opposite road, integrating elements from vastly different sociocultural disciplines that are nevertheless useful and necessary to understand human sociolinguistic ecosystems and their whole-part interrelations.<\/p>\n

Following in the footsteps of bio-ecology, Bastardas-Boada also propose adopting the concept of \u2018sustainability\u2019 within the fields of sociolinguistics and language policy in order to respond to the escalating rise in language contact, pushed strongly by the spread of English and other major languages in the context of globalization. The goal is to rethink the linguistic organization of humanity \u2013 and, therefore, to make language continuity possible \u2013 in a frame marked by a clear increase in human polyglotism. How to make compatible the maintenance and development of most of human language communities and the individual plurilingualism that can enable their inter-communication \u2013 this is the big question. From this approach, a sustainable linguistic contact will be that which does not produce linguistic exposure or linguistic use in allochthonous language at a speed and\/or pressure so high as to make impossible the stable continuity of the autochthonous languages of human groups.<\/p>\n

The application of metaphors or theoretical images from ecology, complexity and figurational or processual sociology in understanding language and sociocommunication phenomena is of great use. By visualizing, for instance, the different levels of linguistic structure not as separate entities but rather as united and integrated within the same theoretical frame, by seeing their functional interdependencies, by situating them in a greater multidimensionality that includes
\nwhat for a long time was considered \u2018external\u2019 \u2013 the individual and his mind-brain, the sociocultural system, the physical world, etc. \u2013 and expanding in this way our classical view, we should be able to make important, if not essential, theoretical and practical advances.<\/p>\n

The fundamental ideas that this book contains can help us to gain a better understanding of processes of language contact \u2013 especially those involving minoritisation and revitalisation or normalisation \u2013 and be useful not only for human communities aspiring to reverse language shift but also in the attainment of a linguistic organization of humanity marked by greater justice, sustainability and solidarity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Albert Bastardas-Boada acaba de publicar, a Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, From language shift to language revitalization and sustainability. A complexity approach to linguistic ecology. Aquest llibre, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicacions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/cusc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}