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Restoration Ecology and Language Revitalization
Restoration Ecology and Language Revitalization
ECOLOGY AND
LANGUAGE
REVITALIZATION
ALBERT BASTARDAS-BOADA
Departament de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General
Universitat de Barcelona
Biodiversity and linguistic diversity
• Ecosystems
• multidimensional contexts
• interrelationships
• interactions
• dynamicity, processuality (time).
Linguistic ecology: the orchestral or
polyphonic metaphor
Persistence and change
-‘modernization’ in economy
- migrations
- tecnomedia
- globalization,
- political homogeneization
- political supraintegrations
- ...
How to ensure a sustainable linguistic
revitalization / ecological restoration?
• PRIGOGINE:
• “to find out under exactly what conditions non-equilibrium situations may be stable”·
(Capra, 1997:86)
Subsidiarity principle:
everything that the local language
can do
should not be done by the more general one.
(Albert Bastardas-Boada)
•The next century will, I
believe, be the era of
restoration in ecology”
• E. O. Wilson (1992).
Albert Bastardas-Boada – Some references: