A LINGUISTICALLY PLURALISTIC AMERICA

A linguistically pluralistic America

Introduction

The phenomenon of coexistence of several languages in a community, language be decisive instrument of social integration, tends to generate conflicts. The reasons for this coexistence is necessary to locate in a net of social, historical, economic and cultural. Overall we can say that the duality of languages occurs as a consequence of expansion and consolidation processes politics, either as a result of migratory movements. However, it is important to remember that not until the modern age that linguistic unification is presented as a policy objective in National states. The importance of the language factor has not always pre equal importance. In the Middle Ages still exists the belief that the diversity of languages is due to human perversity, is a divine punishment. There is a class su- upper familiar with the script, which exercises the political, educational and religious, but the rest of the population, virtually illiterate, is the Apart from the political and cultural knowledge. Medieval man is tied to the country you live, there is little communication channels, trade in general adheres to the local market. There a large number of local dialects in the rural population, suitable for communication within the restricted area in which the individual moves, and Above are the linguas of US that as defined by Jews were the languages of the priests, rulers and merchants who, unlike the other, knew a written form in which the operations settled mercial and government orders are issued. The establishment of peoples to adapt to the intense trade, new communications, etc., give way to social and economic change that give rise to the settlement of modern national languages and the pro- gressive weakening of the former functions of the lingua of US. The unification process and demarcation of borders led to some standardization of the language of each nation-state. The increasing co- communication between the populations, the increase in commercial activity, greater geographical mobility operated in Europe since the Renaissance, phenomena are inseparable from the process of linguistic unification. The industrial society with the widespread application of machines needed of people becoming better prepared, leading to a double specialization tion: a group dedicated to the production of technical innovations and other administrators, politicians and industrial managers to direct and control innovations and their consequences.

Pluralism is an ineradicable fact in the societies of our time. In the state, in the city, where people live in ideas, religions, different cultures, sometimes very different.

Never as today has been discussed both in ethics. Never taken seriously, so different positions which have so far seemed evidence, at least in the theoretical discussion. It is possible that teachers of ethics, philosophers, sociologists, lawyers and even theologians have contributed to the confusion than clarity. The word "ethics" seems to only be applied according to the prevailing conditions of pluralism. Thus, the "ethics" has contributed to a problem that just should have been resolved.

Impact of pluralism on politics

The concept of pluralism and political freedom, a sensitive one which has ...