Jazyková různost v současné teorii a praxi

• Authors: Ivo Vasiljev

Title variants

EN

APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN PRESENT-DAY THEORY AND PRACTICE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The subject was chosen to honour the memory of Professor Vladimír Skalička, who is best known for his contributions to language typology, but who also considered due attention to language diversity in general to be one of the corner stones of linguistics. The author maintains that despite the huge increase in interest in various problems of language diversity over the last fifty years, the most influential linguistic theories either underestimate its theoretical value (Chomskian approaches), or do not sufficiently test their tenets against its reality (cognitive linguistics). The author goes on to outline present-day multilingualism as the language ideology and language policy of the European Union and to show some specific examples of the EU language planning activities, including organized research into language diversity and various aspects of multilingualism within its member countries.

Keywords

EN

EUROPEAN UNION; LANGUAGE DIVERSITY; LANGUAGE POLICY; MULTILINGUALISM; LINGUISTIC THEORIES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 92
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 112-121

Contributors

author

Ivo Vasiljev

• Časopis pro moderní filologii, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic