The Intricacy of Languages
Editors
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.
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.
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 20] 2019. xi, 436 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Editorial noteFrancesc Feliu and Olga Fullana | pp. ix–xi
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Language intricacy: An issue of multi scalarity and feedback loopJosep Maria Nadal | pp. 1–7
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Part 1. Theoretical aspects of the intricacy of languages
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Language globalization versus inner language diversity? An outline of one scalable terminological algorithmMaja Kalezić | pp. 11–22
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La complexité dans les relations de langues collatérales: Un locus intégratif pour une (socio)linguistique des languesJean-Michel Eloy | pp. 23–45
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The persistence of ‘old language’ and the structuring of language communitiesFrancesc Feliu | pp. 47–52
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The lowest common denominator as a factor in the formation of Modern Hebrew phonologyOra (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald | pp. 53–67
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Contribuciones de Joan Coromines y Jakob Jud a la dialectología de las lenguas románicasJohan Araya Méndez | pp. 69–79
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Lingue e culture locali nei processi contemporanei di patrimonializzazione e di costruzione identitariaFerdinando Mirizzi | pp. 81–97
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La linguistica dello sviluppo sociale: Motivazioni, strumenti, terminologiaGiovanni Agresti | pp. 99–134
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Part 2. The languages of Europe, among standard and variation
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Complexité du continuum dialectal carélo-vepseKsenija Djordjević Léonard and Jean Léo Léonard | pp. 137–152
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The lexicon of the Lithuanian language in the 17–19th centuriesGintarė Judžentytė and Vilma Zubaitienė | pp. 153–174
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L’estandardització del gaèlic escocès: L’aplicació del model de HaugenJordi Ortiz de Antonio | pp. 175–188
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La construcción del estándar vasco vizcaíno del s. xix : Los comienzosKoldo Ulibarri Orueta | pp. 189–204
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The standardization of Chinese: A process run alongside Catalan for a century?Joan Julià-Muné | pp. 205–226
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Strategies for conservation of a minority language: Between convergence and hybridizationVito Matranga and Emma Milano | pp. 227–242
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Per a un tractament integrat de llengües en el context escolar de les parles valencianes de base castellano-aragonesa i murcianaAlexandre Bataller Català | pp. 243–259
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Part 3. Tensions and internal diversity in the Catalan language
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La variació lectal del català en l’era de la societat xarxa: Notes per a un debatMiquel Nicolás | pp. 263–280
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La perspectiva diastràtica en la Gramàtica de la llengua catalana. descriptiva, normativa, diatòpica, diastràtica (1994), d’Antoni M. Badia i MargaritJoan Costa Carreras | pp. 281–295
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La distribució funcional de variants en la Gramàtica de la llengua catalana. descriptiva, normativa, diatòpica, diastràtica (1994), d’Antoni M. Badia i MargaritJoan Costa Carreras and David Paloma Sanllehí | pp. 297–310
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Fabra i la segona flexió verbal en catalàAbelard Saragossà | pp. 311–326
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Processos de canvi en les combinacions de clítics pronominals a la FranjaEsteve Valls | pp. 327–346
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Renunciar als trets lingüístics propis: “Per a Lleida ja ‘no’ està bé”Annabel Gràcia i Damas | pp. 347–358
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La presència del tortosí al Telenotícies comarques Tarragona de TV3Amanda Ulldemolins Subirats | pp. 359–377
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“La nostra llengua” i altres circumloquis com a recurs per a evitar el nom de la llengua catalana al País Valencià (1858–1906)Adrià Martí-Badia | pp. 379–392
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Geosinonímia o preferència lèxica: Entre la història i la consolidació d’un estàndardJoan-Rafael Ramos | pp. 393–408
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El diccionari normatiu valencià (DNV) de l’Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua: Una contribució al benestar lingüístic dels valenciansJordi Colomina | pp. 409–432
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Subject index* | pp. 433–436
“This is an important and timely volume. Globalisation and immigration have necessitated the rethinking of what we understand by standard languages and norms, variation and correct usage. As the ideology of the standard weakens in relation to certain national languages, previously stigmatised varieties and forms are being reviewed by speakers and given new values.”
Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge
“The book proposal presents both general and historical well organized and composed
linguistic matters: theoretical aspects (Part I: Theoretical aspects of the intricacy of
languages), standardization problems (Part II: The languages of Europe, among standard and variation), and the focus on a peculiar case study (Part III: Tensions and internal diversity in the Catalan language).”
linguistic matters: theoretical aspects (Part I: Theoretical aspects of the intricacy of
languages), standardization problems (Part II: The languages of Europe, among standard and variation), and the focus on a peculiar case study (Part III: Tensions and internal diversity in the Catalan language).”
Pietro U. Dini, Università di Pisa
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009050: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics