Kalba ir mobilūs resursai

2021-03-12
Vuk Vukotić
The linguistic marketplace (traditional)
The linguistic marketplace (mobile, global)
https://youtu.be/wDj3GfU_XhA
Scale
Power and inequality are features of scaling, of the asymmetrical
capacity to invoke particular scale levels in the interpretation of an act;
scales provide contexts with possible regulations of access.

Scalar processes are processes of shifts between such scales, and we

should recall that such shifts involve complex re-semiotizations of
TimeSpace: new images of time and space, new patterns of acting
upon them.

(p. 36)
• Orders of indexicality
• Indexical orders (Registers, Voices...)
Policentricity
Mobile resources vs. language rights
• Territorialization and deterritorialization
• Social and geographical mobility

vs.
Linguistic aspects of globalization
Now
• Global economy (mobile resources)
• Globally mobile humans
• Globalized, multiple media, internet
• Deterritorialized language
• Accent, globalized culture
• Globally created orders of
indexicality
• Mobile resources
Earlier
• National-regional economy
• Less mobile humans
• National, singular media
• Territorialized language
• Accent, local / national culture
• Nationally created orders of
indexicality
• Local resources
Higher order global English indexicality
• https://youtu.be/Hbn1Rn-OKR8

Conclusion – does the global spread of English cause global inequality?

There is no inequality between „languages“, i.e. no „evil English“
attacking small languages. There is, hoewever, inequality, but it is an
inequality of access to resources and products (economic inequality),
which brings about an unequal access (of globally and nationally
differently positioned people) to valuable linguistic resources. Social
and geographical movement is conditioned by access to those
resources.