samedi 29 novembre 2008

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Linguistic Genocide in Education Or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?




Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (guest researcher at the Department of Languages and Culture, University of Roskilde, Denmark and visiting professor at Åbo Akademi University, Department of Education, Vasa, Finland):

“Many linguists and others seem to dismiss Esperanto as an alternative to today’s international communication, without actually knowing (almost) anything about it. Of the world’s planned languages […] Esperanto is today the most known and used.”

“Esperanto takes much less time to learn than any ‘natural’ languages, because it is regular and logical - there are no exceptions. But still you can say whatever you want in Esperanto, because everybody can easily create new words which are immediately understandable for everybody else once the root is explaned - the words are relatively transparent.”

“There are studies showing that learning Esperanto has propaedeutic value for learning later languages - if you have studied Esperanto first, you learn other languages faster.”

“I see Esperanto as a possible viable alternative to today’s languages for international communication.”

“Ignorance and prejudices may prevent useful solutions.”

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Linguistic Genocide in Education Or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2008 (pages 280, 281, 283, 284)

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas' Personal Homepage:
http://www.tove-skutnabb-kangas.org/

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