LANGUAGE POLICY IN OCEANIA: IN THE FRONTIERS OF COLONIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION

LANGUAGE POLICY IN OCEANIA: IN THE FRONTIERS OF COLONIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION

In this article, we present an overview of the language policies adopted in the Oceanian countries and territories after analysis of legislation, plans and government programs. Representing 22.9% of all languages in the world--the vast majority spoken by few people and endangered--, this continent s...

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Published in:Alfa 2019-05, Vol.63 (2), p.327-356
Main Author: da Silva, Diego Barbosa
Format: Article
Language:spa ; eng
Subjects:
Analysis
Bilingualism
Bilingüismo
Colonial languages
Colonialism
Colonialismo
Colonization
European languages
Globalización
Globalization
Immigrants
Imperialism
Indigenismo
Indigenous languages
Indigenous peoples
Language policy
Legislation
Linguistics
Missionaries
Political activity
Political aspects
Politics
Sociolinguistics
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Summary:In this article, we present an overview of the language policies adopted in the Oceanian countries and territories after analysis of legislation, plans and government programs. Representing 22.9% of all languages in the world--the vast majority spoken by few people and endangered--, this continent suffered an intense linguistic colonization marked by the instrumentalisation of indigenous languages by missionaries and by the subsequent imposition of European languages as the only ones allowed during European and American imperialism. Such a scenario has broadened the complex linguistic situation in Oceania and has imposed on the countries of the region many challenges about languages to adopt after their independences, in view of the many local problems, which caused the Oceanian peoples to seek diverse political solutions and to become frontier peoples--frontiers of languages, frontiers of meanings, frontiers of memories, frontiers between colonizer languages, indigenous languages and immigrant languages. * KEYWORDS: Language policy. Oceania. Linguistic colonization. Bilingualism. Languages in contact. Neste artigo, apresentamos um panorama das politicas linguisticas dos paises e territorios da Oceania apos analise de legislacoes, planos e programas de governo. Com 22,9% de todas as linguas do mundo, a grande maioria falada por poucas pessoas e ameacada de desaparecimento, esse continente sofreu uma intensa colonizacao linguistica marcada pela instrumentalizacao das linguas indigenas por missionarios religiosos e pela posterior imposicao da lingua europeia como unica permitida durante o imperialismo europeu e o americano. Tal cenario ampliou a complexa situacao linguistica da Oceania e impos aos paises da regiao muitos desafios em torno de qual lingua adotar apos a independencia frente a muitos problemas locais, fazendo com que os oceanicos buscassem diversas solucoes politicas e se tornassem povos de fronteiras, fronteiras de linguas, fronteiras de sentidos, fronteiras de memorias entre as linguas colonizadoras, as autoctones e as linguas imigrantes. * PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Politica linguistica. Oceania. Colonizacao linguistica. Bilinguismo. Linguas em contato.
ISSN:0002-5216
1981-5794