Resumen de Identity among bilinguals: An ecolinguistic approach

Peter Hans Nelde

• galego

  A construcción da identidade entre os falantes das "linguas menos usadas" resulta, en moitos aspectos, moi difícil de comparar entre os grupos minoritarios europeos debido a que as identidades etnolingüísticas e culturais das minorias veñen sendo estudiadas desde moi diferentes aproximacións investigadoras. Do mesmo xeito, como revelou a lingüística de contacto a través do informe Euromosaic, existen moitas e completamente diferentes políticas lingüísticas dentro da Unión Europea, e a consecuencia é que a identidade dos falantes minoritarios ten sido definida de xeitos diferentes dependendo dos conceptos de estado-nación dos estados membros da Unión Europea. Neste traballo preséntanse algúns aspectos internos e externos dos conflictos identitarios que se poden observar entre os membros das minorías autóctonas en Europa. Móstrase que estes rasgos son dunha importancia fundamental para a construcción dunha identidade lingüístico-cultural dentro destes grupos minoritarios que intentan evitar a asimilación a través da construcción da súa identidade, mentres que ó mesmo tempo intentan ser cidadáns socializados e aceptados polos falantes maioritarios. ¿Poden tales conflictos identitarios ser superados a través dunha planificación lingüística axeitada?

• English

  Identity building among speakers of "lesser used languages" is, in many aspects, incomparable among european minority groups, since many differing research approaches characterize the ethnolinguistic and cultural identities of minorities. In the same way, as contact linguistics by means of the Euromosaic report has revealed, there are several entirely different european language policies within the EU, and as a consequence, the identity of minority speakers has been defined in different ways depending on the nation state concepts of the EU member states. We would like to discuss some internal and external aspects of identity conflicts which can be observed among autochtonous minority members in Europe. It will be shown that these features are of prime importance for the construction of a cultural-linguistic identity within those minority groups who are trying to avoid assimilation through identity building, meanwhile they are trying to be socialized citizens, and accepted by the majority speakers. Can such identity conflicts be overcome by means of effective language planning?