Uma introdução sobre a linguística popular da política de línguas (An introduction to the popular linguistics of language policy)

Nathan  Albury

doi:10.22481/el.v19i2.9943

Authors

Nathan Albury Universiteit Leiden (LEI/Holanda/Países Baixos) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3471-4939

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v19i2.9943

Keywords:

Folk linguistics; Language policy; Opinions motivated by beliefs; Ethnographic commentary; Maori.

Abstract

Individuals in a community of speakers engage in language policy. They interpret and apply folk knowledge and beliefs about language to bring language policies to life, and even create measures to resolve local language dilemmas. These individuals are, in fact, folk linguists. Folk linguistics examines the various ways in which a people, without linguistic training, performs linguistics as a science. However, in the case of language policy, folk linguistics has reserved itself to investigate the socio-cultural dynamics that concern public life. I propose a holistic conception of language policy within the folk linguistics research program. This allows for a broader paradigm to analyze not only what people understand about language policy, but also what kind of folk knowledge exists about language policies, and what knowledge and beliefs are applied by folk linguists to develop language policy.

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Author Biography

Nathan Albury, Universiteit Leiden (LEI/Holanda/Países Baixos)

Nathan John Albury é doutor em sociolinguística pela Universidade de Oslo. É bolsista do programa Marie Curie COFUND LEaDing Fellows na Universidade de Leiden. Antes disso, ele foi professor assistente de sociolinguística e linguística aplicada na Universidade Politécnica de Hong Kong. Suas pesquisas versam sobre política e planejamento linguístico, atitudes e ideologias linguísticas, linguística popular, consciência linguística, linguagem e etnia e construção de língua e nação.

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