Las lenguas como elementos de cohesión social. Del multilingüismo al desarrollo de habilidades para la comunicación intercultural

Authors

Martina TutsSalto de línea Colectivo Yedra.

Abstract

Languages as Social Cohesion Elements. From Multilingualism to the Development of Intercultural Communication SkillsSalto de línea Salto de línea Language, as a social cohesion factor, has been considered from the different assimilacionist perspectives as a necessary and priority element for the integration within a society recipient of people coaming from other linguistic and cultural communities. This article provides a reflection on diversity as an unavoidable issue in the construction of a new multicultural citizenship in which the vehicle language not always proves to be the vehicle language for interaction. This is partly due to the asymmetric relationships established between this type of language and the rest, which are less valued from a social and economic point of view. On the other hand, this study suggests the recognition and progressive incorporation of non-national and non-European languages into the curriculum, from an integration and fair perspective based on the no linguistic discrimination in the educational field in its broad sense.

Keywords

Communication, multilingualism, diversity, social cohesion, competences, interculturality.