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Defining Documentary Linguistics

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Md. Mostafa Rashel:
4.2.1 Social diversity
Related to this is a focus on diversity in a slightly different sense — the focus by
sociolinguists on social diversity, and on the ways ideology about language and linguistic
practice constitute and embody peoples’ sense of their social, ethnic, personal, and even
spiritual identity. It is perhaps this aspect of ‘linguistic diversity’ that is most directly
relevant to contemporary social and political concerns about diversity within US society,
and diversity as a value affected by globalization and other homogenizing tendencies.

4.2.2 Neo-Whorfian concerns
In a related way, it is increasingly asserted — among linguistic anthropologists (Lucy 1992,
Gumperz and Levinson 1996) and in society more widely — that linguistic diversity has
humanistic value, and that it is critical to intellectual, literary, and aesthetic creativity.
These questions might be called neo-Whorfian although their roots go much farther back.
To the extent this is the case, the study of linguistic diversity — diversity of linguistic
codes as well as of the uses and potentialities of those codes — becomes important.

Afroza Akhter Tina:
...such an important issue to be discussed!Thanks for letting us know Sir  :)





Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

Md. Mostafa Rashel:
Thanks for showing interest.........

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