Cognitive Contributions to Plurilithic Views of English and Other Languages.

Autor/in	Hall, Christopher J.
Titel	Cognitive Contributions to Plurilithic Views of English and Other Languages.
Quelle	In: Applied linguistics, 34 (2013) 2, S. 211-231Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen 1; Anmerkungen 6; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-450X
DOI	10.1093/applin/ams042
Schlagwörter	Kognition; Linguistik; Sprachbetrachtung; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englisch; Englischunterricht
Abstract	Monolithic views of languages predominate in linguistics, applied linguistics, and everyday discourse. The World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, and Critical Applied Linguistics frameworks have gone some way to counter the myth, highlighting the iniquities it gives rise to for global users and learners of English. Here, the author proposes that developing an understanding of 'plurilithic' Englishes informed by cognitively oriented linguistics (including generativism), can complement and consolidate valuable but often divisive socially oriented efforts to 'disinvent' named languages. He acknowledges problems associated with mainstream generativism, but argues that a complete repudiation of mentalistic notions of language is unhelpful. He suggests that a modified 'polylingually constituted' version of the Chomskyan I-language concept may be useful, capturing the bottom-up nature of individual language resources and drawing a clear contrast with folk ontologies of English as a named monolithic system (N-language). The emerging epistemological integration suggests that learning and use are determined by individuals' local experiences as non-conformist mental appropriators of external social practices, rather than by top-down notions of proficiency in monolithic national, foreign, international, or supranational varieties. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2