Communicational Processes, Languages Death, Cultural Identity: Problems and Challenges in the Third Millenium

Abstract

This paper focuses, from the point of view of Social Linguistics (Requejo), and Social Psychology (Pichon Riviere, Quiroga), on the following issues: a) the complex and changing scenery of languages worldwide, b) the socio-political processes which affect multilingualism, one of the indicators of the cultural diversity and counter-hegemony in the world, c) the swift and painful disappearance of non-hegemonic languages all over the world, and d) the current possibility or difficulty for vast majorities of population to assume authorship of the word-thought from an appreciated place, from the linguistic point of view as well as the socio-political, cognitive and cultural point of view. Its aim is to generate debates and new openness in the fields of education, communication, mental health and the linguistic-cultural policies.