Abstract:

The topics on language revitalization and promotion and on cultural diversity defense, which are widely translated into some oposition to linguistic globalization, are mostly based on a set of ideas which will be known as 'politically and linguistically correct discourse' (PLC). This discourse, on its turn, generates linguistic policy claims which usually drive us nowhere. In this article we aim to show a model of analysis of the linguistic situation at the moment of globalization and to characterize the PLC discourse, assessing its effects on linguistic policies.

Author: Louis-Jean Calvet, Lia Varela