The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capdevila, Irene, Author.

Series:

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature Series

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature Series ; v.47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prats, Modest, 1936-2014.

Linguistic change.

Language and culture.

Local Subjects:

Prats, Modest, 1936-2014.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Language Note:

The texts collected are written in four different languages: English, Catalan, French and Italian, and the abstracts and general indications of volume are in English--Page 2

Summary:

The ideology of the national language has weakened internal dialectal diversity. Could it be that now, for this reason, those same languages are in danger, especially those lacking a projection beyond their historical territories? What role can the preservation of the primordial language play in the attempt to combat the linguistic globalization?.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

A loss that endangers the future? / Francesc Feliu

What languages were and what they are today

The plough and the tractor / Josep M. Nadal

Le riflessioni di Pasolini sulla diversita linguistica tra nostalgie del passato e profezie per il futuro / Paolo DAchille

What (and how) is an authentic language? / Kathryn Woolard

Socio-onomastics and political power / Eloi Belles

On the loss of linguistic heritage

La terra per la paraula / Cosme Aguilo

On the loss of Lithuanian in former East Prussia / Adriano Cerri

Tot lo que e perdua e tristor / Annabel Gracia

La perdua de la llengua primordial a la Catalunya del Nord / Adria Marti-Badia

The preservation of diversity

Primordial lexis and neologisms / Merce Lorente, Josep Martines

El neguit sobre la mort del catala / Miquel Angel Pradilla Cardona

Variacio interna i drets linguistics / Oriol Ponsati-Murla

La percepcio de la diversitat linguistica catalana en la musica / David Garcia Sirvent

Strategies for the future

Langue minoree, petite langue / Jean-Michel Eloy

Narcissus supra Regna tria Naturae / Maja Kalezic

Pour que les langues nationales aient un futur dans les sciences / Giovanni Agresti

Epilogue

Laportacio de Modest Prats a la Historia de la llengua catalana / Miquel Nicolas

Subject index

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-272-4395-6

9789027243959

OCLC:

1581932232