My Language, Our Language : Notes on Cultural Apparatus Called 'Mother Tongue' and Linguistic Nationalism

ワタシ ノ コトバ ワタシ タチ ノ コトバ ボゴ トイウ ブンカテキ ソウチ ト ゲンゴ ナショナリズム オ メグッテ

マツカワ, キョウコ

Matsukawa, Kyoko

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

英語

言語権

言語ナショナリズム

所有(権)

ゴア

'mother tongue'

linguistic right

linguistic nationalism

property

Goa

The strong relation between language and community started to be emphasised in the modern times. The relation has been embodied in the idea of nation's own language in the nationalisms of newly-rising nation-states in the 19th century. As ethno-nationalisms in multinational and multilinguistc countries increased, the framework of nation-state trembled. However, the principle of the peculiar language for a community (nation) has not changed until now. In this article, I examine how the principle of nation's own language appears in the discourses of linguistic nationalism, in relation to the concept of mother tongue. First, I look at arguments about linguistic right and point out that as a prerequisite for the right we can find "the logic of 'mother tongue" 'which transforms individual's mother tongue into the 'mother tongue' of a linguistic community. Secondly, I indicate how 'mother tongue' becomes objectified through education in the mother tongue and standardisation, and becomes transformed into the 'peculiar' language of a linguistic community. Some cases of linguistic nationalism in Goa are given in order to show what situation arises in reality over the logic of 'mother tongue'. Finally, I suggest that the concept of 'property' can shed light upon problems related to the claim of peculiar 'mother tongue' and the disposition towards useful languages.

英語