WHAT SOCIETIES AND COMMUNICATIVE CAPACITIES DO CURRENT SOCIOLINGUISTIC CHANGES INVOLVE?

EXAMINING SOME KEY FACTORS

Authors

  • Héctor Muñoz Cruz Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Keywords:

langauge policies, linguistic theories, sociolinguistic changes, stratification

Abstract

In the relatively recent history of linguistics, interesting epistemological rearrangements have occurred around the change and variability of systems to explain the compatibility between stratification and the structurability of languages. In structuralist theories of language (Bally, 1950; Malmberg, 1954; Coseriu, 1973) one can find postulations and discussions around the essential presence of synchrony in the stability of language. Also, in historical linguistics (Paul, 1880) it was stated that the consistency of linguistic behaviors and the regularity of phonic changes were derived from more general principles, especially psychological ones, which are manifested in the consistency of speech practices and in the regularity of the changes it expresses, as suggested by Weinreich, Labov and Herzog (1968). The discussion is not about establishing whether linguistics has dealt with this problem or not. Rather, it is about reflecting on the articulation of the epistemological advances that are observed in the theory of language policies and in interventions or mediations of sociolinguistic change. In this work, these advances are analyzed to reflect on their viability in terms of plural regulation of sociolinguistic changes.

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2024-12-21

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Dossier: Herencia sociolingüística chilena