Repenser le plurilinguisme : langue, postnationalisme et la nouvelle économie mondialisée
Year:
2008
Author :
Journal:
, Diversité urbaine (hors série)
Pages :
, 163-176
Abstract
Il est devenu difficile aujourd’hui de maintenir la fiction de l’homogénéité et les marchés nationaux protégés issus du nationalisme moderne. L’expansion capitaliste force à s’ajuster à de nouvelles réalités bien identifiées par nombre d’auteurs importants : l’expansion des marchés et la recherche de ressources; la saturation des marchés et la nécessité de se concentrer sur la valeur ajoutée, les produits de niche, la spécialisation, la distinction; l’augmentation et la diversification des mouvements migratoires et des réseaux de communication et de circulation des biens; et l’émergence de la nouvelle économie mondialisée basée sur les services et sur l’information, qui favorise les formes de travail basées sur la communication, avec une commodification de la langue (Heller, 2003). Ces processus nous amènent à repenser les discours reliant langue, culture, identité et citoyenneté. Les liens transnationaux rendent le plurilinguisme plus attirant. Dans la sphère politique, on travaille à développer un nationalisme inclusif et respectueux de la diversité.
Today, it has become difficult to maintain the fiction of homogeneity and the national markets that modern nationalism contributed to creating. We face new realities underscored by many important authors: the expansion of markets and the search for resources; the saturation of markets and the necessity of concentrating on added value, niche products, specialization and distinction; the increase and diversification of migration movements and of networks of communication and of circulation of goods; and the emergence of the new economy based on services and information, which favours communication-based forms of work and a commodification of language (Heller, 2003). These processes cause us to re-think the linkage of language, culture, identity and citizenship. We look more towards the economic sphere and its transnational linkages; multilingualism becomes more attracting; communicative competence becomes more important in more sectors. In the political sphere, there are attempts to develop a conception of nationalism which is meant to be inclusive and respectful of diversity.
Today, it has become difficult to maintain the fiction of homogeneity and the national markets that modern nationalism contributed to creating. We face new realities underscored by many important authors: the expansion of markets and the search for resources; the saturation of markets and the necessity of concentrating on added value, niche products, specialization and distinction; the increase and diversification of migration movements and of networks of communication and of circulation of goods; and the emergence of the new economy based on services and information, which favours communication-based forms of work and a commodification of language (Heller, 2003). These processes cause us to re-think the linkage of language, culture, identity and citizenship. We look more towards the economic sphere and its transnational linkages; multilingualism becomes more attracting; communicative competence becomes more important in more sectors. In the political sphere, there are attempts to develop a conception of nationalism which is meant to be inclusive and respectful of diversity.
Theme :
EconomyFrancophonesIdentityMultilingualismNationalism
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