INVENT LANGUAGE AND GIVE IT A NAME

Authors

  • Louis-Jean Calvet Universidade de Provence

Keywords:

Language; language practices; language representations; language names.

Abstract

The objective of this article is to discuss speakers’ daily practices as well as their representations of laguages and of how they are used. These representations act on the practices, functioning as a fator of language change. They may also lead speakers to an linguistic security/insecurity which also acts on the practices and, consequently, on the languages themselves. The article also shows that these representations begin in the very name given to languages. Language is an invention that ends up by receiving a name.

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Author Biography

Louis-Jean Calvet, Universidade de Provence

Doutor em Linguística pela Universidade Sorbonne e atua como professor na Universidade de Provence.

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Published

2018-02-12

How to Cite

Calvet, L.-J. (2018). INVENT LANGUAGE AND GIVE IT A NAME. Ecolinguística: Revista Brasileira De Ecologia E Linguagem (ECO-REBEL), 4(1), 05–11. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/9913

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018)

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Articles

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