Resumen de Models and stereotypes of ethnicity and of language
Robert B. Le Page, Andrée Tabouret-Keller
Stereotypes concerning both ‘race’ and ‘language’ are examined as to the bases upon which they rest both in popular thinking and in classical anthropology and linguistics, and contrasted with approaches to human genetic and behavioural clustering and differentiation forced upon us by a careful examination of the implications of polymorphism in genetics and a study of the data of very diffuse creole/contact situations in linguistics and emergent social identities. Extrapolation from these particular situations to all language suggests a need for fresh models to accommodate a dynamic relationship between social stereotypes and ethnic and linguistic focussing.
