Revista Alteridades
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Alteridades No. 10 Abstractshot!
- Resumen de los artÃculos en inglés
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Bilingües y bilingüismo en los Estados Unidos: la polÃtica lingüÃstica en una época antiinmigrantehot!
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Guadalupe Valdés. Bilinguals and Bilingualism: Language Policy in an Anti-Immigrant Age.
In monolingual nation-states, problems do not end for members of linguistic minority groups when they become speakers of the societal language. This is especially the case in immigrant nations during those periods in which anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise. This paper examines the policy problems that confront members of such immigrant groups by examining the case of Latinos in the United States. It argues that this population’s well-being is almost exclusively in the hands of English-speaking monolingual individuals who as recent legal decisions illustrate (e. g., Cota v. Tucson Police Department, Perez v. F.B.I, Hernandez v. New York) - have little or no understanding of the condition of bilingualism and little sympathy for the problems encountered by immigrant populations. The paper includes a discussion of a number of different language issues that have been encountered by the Latino population in this country within the legal, employment, and educational domains, as well as an outline of concerns and questions that need to be examined by those who are concerned about the language rights of minority populations.
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Conflictos entre lenguas y derechos lingüÃsticos: perspectivas de análisis sociolingüÃsticohot!
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Rainer Enrique Hamel. Language conflict and linguistic human rights: a sociolinguistic framework.
Based on ongoing research in an indigenous area of Mexico, this article analyses how language conflict between Spanish and indigenous languages, and minority shift operate on the levels of cultural models, discourse, and language use. In such processes, ruptures between them, and between the social production of experience and its discursive appropriation. The analysis shows in which ways theses processes affect linguistic human rights in two key areas of social organization: in bilingual education and the administration of justice. This comprehensive sociolinguistic perspective allows the author to relate the Mexican experience to other cases, and to sketch some general principles for research on the topic. As a conclusion the article sustains that a sociolinguistic framework which broadens the concepts of language and communication underlying existing models for language planning will best be suited to describe language conflict situations, and to establish an adequate basis for the definition and implementation of linguistic human rights. Such a framework will have to take into account at least three levels of sociolinguistic analysis: linguistic structure, discourse structure, and cultural models.
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Construcción lingüÃstica de la Comunidad Europeahot!
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Reseña - Construcción lingüística de la Comunidad Europea
Robret Phillipson - Así como muchos europeos están fascinados por las cosas norteamericanas, hay también una larga tradición de intelectuales del “nuevo mundo” interesada en sondear la cultura europea. Normand Labrie, un estudioso canadiense, ha escrito un libro sobre las lenguas de las instituciones de la Unión Europea (UE) y la formulación actual sobre la política del lenguaje en la Europa occidental contemporánea. Es digno de mencionarse el hecho de que fuera el gobierno canadiense, antes que cualquier otro de los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea, el que haya pensado en fijar un subsidio de dos años para estudios posdoctorales en tal temática. Del mismo modo, no es una sorpresa que el primer estudio monográfico extenso de la “Construcción Lingüística de la Comunidad Europea” haya sido publicado en francés.
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