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Language Mixture, Contact and Semiotic Dynamics: Some Thoughts in Counterpoint to Schuchardt’s Approach
In: Journal of Language ContactThis paper compares the conceptual framework of Schuchardt’s perspective on language mixing (or at least my representation of it) with that of ‘semiotic dynamics’ as presented in several of my earlier works (Nicolaï, 2011, 2012a). These two approaches entail a same interest in the activities of individuals and groups (communication actors, etc.) who, in their ordinary usage, produce and transform languages. Thus the framework of semiotic dynamics introduces conceptualizations, obviously developed independently of the process which « Slawo-deutsches und Slawo-italienisches » exemplifies, but which, despite differing trajectories, intersects with it. This intersection justifies my assertion as to the work’s modernity and the usefulness of reviewing it. At the same time, this review broadens the scope of research and reflections in this field.
In counterpoint, I will look into the justified (or not) propensity of scholars and documenters to consider a priori the objects-languages with which they work as constitutively homogeneous entities, albeit subject to modification and transformation by a (contingent) contact situation.
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Cf. Durkheim (1893), who notes, on the subject of the "moral and social sciences" that "they offer the spectacle of an aggregate of disjointed parts which do not work together. If therefore they make up a set without unity, it is not because they are not sufficiently aware of their resemblances; it is because they are not organized" [elles offrent […] le spectacle d’un agrégat de parties disjointes qui ne concourent pas entre elles. Si donc elles forment un ensemble sans unité, ce n’est pas parce qu’elles n’ont pas un sentiment suffisant de leurs ressemblances; c’est qu’elles ne sont pas organisées]; and then that: "since a body of rules is the definite form adopted over time by the relations spontaneously established between social functions, one could say, a priori, that the state of anomy is impossible wherever the necessary organs are in sufficient and sufficiently prolonged contact." [puisqu’un corps de règles est la forme définie que prennent avec le temps les rapports qui s’établissent spontanément entre les fonctions sociales, on peut dire a priori que l’état d’anomie est impossible partout où les organes soli-daires sont en contact suffisant et suffisamment prolongé.]
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Language Mixture, Contact and Semiotic Dynamics: Some Thoughts in Counterpoint to Schuchardt’s Approach
In: Journal of Language ContactThis paper compares the conceptual framework of Schuchardt’s perspective on language mixing (or at least my representation of it) with that of ‘semiotic dynamics’ as presented in several of my earlier works (Nicolaï, 2011, 2012a). These two approaches entail a same interest in the activities of individuals and groups (communication actors, etc.) who, in their ordinary usage, produce and transform languages. Thus the framework of semiotic dynamics introduces conceptualizations, obviously developed independently of the process which « Slawo-deutsches und Slawo-italienisches » exemplifies, but which, despite differing trajectories, intersects with it. This intersection justifies my assertion as to the work’s modernity and the usefulness of reviewing it. At the same time, this review broadens the scope of research and reflections in this field.
In counterpoint, I will look into the justified (or not) propensity of scholars and documenters to consider a priori the objects-languages with which they work as constitutively homogeneous entities, albeit subject to modification and transformation by a (contingent) contact situation.
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