The art and politics of micronational language planning

IF 1.4 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.003

David Karlander

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Abstract

This article discusses the language politics of micronations. It argues that micronational language planning offers a three-pronged satirical rejoinder to mainstream language politics. First, micronational language politics pushes back at attempts to frame nation-states and national languages as irrelevant in a globalized world. Second, it rebuffs neo-romantic sociolinguistic critiques of globalization. Third, it troubles technocratic approaches to language policy and planning (LPP). This argument is grounded in a close analysis of two micronational art projects: Elgaland-Vargaland and Ladonia. These micronations simultaneously appropriate and debase traditional LPP, creating both a defamiliarization of well-worn language ideologies and a destabilization of technocratic linguistic expertise. This is a promising starting point for reimagining research into the politics of language.

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微民族语言规划的艺术与政治

本文讨论了微国家的语言政治。它认为，微民族语言规划提供了对主流语言政治的三方面讽刺反驳。首先，微民族语言政治抵制了将民族国家和民族语言框定为与全球化世界无关的企图。其次，它驳斥了新浪漫主义社会语言学对全球化的批评。第三，它给语言政策和规划（LPP）的技术官僚方法带来麻烦。这一论点是基于对两个微型国家艺术项目的仔细分析：埃尔加兰-瓦尔加兰和拉多尼亚。这些微型国家同时利用和贬低了传统的LPP，造成了对陈旧的语言意识形态的陌生化和技术官僚语言专业知识的不稳定。这是重新构想语言政治研究的一个有希望的起点。

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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3.40

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.