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Linguistic Diversity, What for?

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  • Language Diversity: What for?
    • This course offers a wide panorama of linguistic diversity. It deals with aspects related to the conceptual and legal frameworks and explores different fields in which linguistic diversity matters, diverse perspectives to approach the issue and questions that arise. It also presents practices of language revitalization, promotion of multilingualism, and innovative and creative enterprises dealing with linguistic diversity. It is oriented to help understand and manage various contexts that emerge from linguistic diversity in different environments of social interaction. Finally, it intends to create a community of linguistic diversity promoters who share ideas and experiences to constantly broaden their horizons.
  • Linguistic Diversity in the World: Introduction and Transversal Perspectives
    • Contextualization of the notion of ‘linguistic diversity’: historical evolution, elements that integrate it, geographies (territories and human displacements), transformations in legal, social and educational sensitivity; international framework (legal movements and instruments) and digital environment.
  • Languages and territories of Origin
    • Language communities in territories of origin. Geographical and historical panorama of linguistic diversity in the different territories with references to revitalization practices.
  • People Movements and Linguistic Diversity
    • Moving languages: changes in linguistic dynamics, new challenges in the interpretation and management of linguistic diversity.
  • Language Revitalization
    • What is language revitalization, what is it for, how to promote it, what questions and challenges it generates and what results can be expected from it.
  • Linguistic diversity, Creativity and Social Transformation
    • Presentation of cases in which linguistic diversity is managed as a tool for creation, self-knowledge, elevation of democratic quality and transformation of human life.