Bilingualism and identity in the post-modern world

• Autores: Monica Heller
• Localización: Estudios de sociolingüística: Linguas, sociedades e culturas, ISSN 1576-7418, Vol. 1, Nº 2, 2000, págs. 9-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nowadays bilingualism it becoming a positive value to be promoted and defended in our western social and cultural context. Being understood from a wide perspective, bilingualism may be both a way of wielding the power and resisting it. Nevertheless, the most relevant aspect it understanding the sources of value of bilingualism and the nature of valued bilingual practices, because not all of them get the tame recognition from the point of view of dominant languages and social groups. It is suggested that according to present dominant linguistic ideologies, the bilingualism that gets value and recognition in postmodernity it the one that it based un certain linguistic behaviours and practices that can only change very slightly monolingual standardizing ideologies which was hegemonies in modernity.