Questões correntes na pragmática social
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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v11i1.9762Keywords:
Societal pragmatics, language awareness, gender and language, endangered languages, ‘conscienticization’, ‘anticipatory’ pragmatics, ecology of language.Abstract
The essay argues for the need for a renewed consciousness of the human element in language use: a human ‘ecology’ of language, as one could call it. The label ‘societal’ is intended to capture the fact that the human user is central in all considerations of language policies, in efforts to save endangered languages and raise language awareness (‘conscienticização’), with regard to questions of language and gender, of language abuse, and so on. It is further argued that an emancipatory language use must incorporate an anticipatory aspect, by which present and foreseeable effects of language policies are placed within the actual life situations of the users. (Two actual cases, one from Brazil, the other from India, are discussed).
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