Language issue in the 21st century and the centuries ahead: an exercise in crystal-ball gazing

Authors

  • Kanavillil Rajagopalan Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Campinas, São Paulo

Keywords:

Modern Linguistics, 19th century Zeitgeist, globalization, rethinking language

Abstract

Written in a speculative spirit, this paper is an attempt to take a peek

into what the future might hold for the study of language. It takes into

account the phenomenal changes that the world has undergone since the

days when modern linguistics constituted itself as an academic discipline.

It is argued that these changes call for a radical rethinking of some of

the fundamental assumptions about language that have hardly ever been

questioned until now

Published

2019-04-17

How to Cite

Rajagopalan, K. (2019). Language issue in the 21st century and the centuries ahead: an exercise in crystal-ball gazing. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 35(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/42310