The map, the group and language ideology
The map, the group and language ideology
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地图、群体和语言意识形态
DOI：
10.1080/21698252.2014.937562
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2014
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S. Wright
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摘要本文记录了地图制作的历史，展示了地图的发展方式是如何与群体认同模式的发展相结合的。核心问题涉及我们对物理世界的概念化方式，以及这些方式是否会影响语言意识形态，即从我们的社会政治环境中提取的一系列信仰，价值观和态度，这些信仰，价值观和态度指导，约束和塑造我们的语言行为。本尼迪克特安德森指出，在国家建设中，地图绘制、身份认同和语言实践是平行发展的。我在这里的论点是，在欧洲中世纪世界也可以看到这种联系，并且有一些迹象表明，这种共同出现在后民族环境中的地图制作，身份形成和语言实践中是可以辨别的。在社会科学中，宣称明确的因果关系是不恰当的。然而，有可能证明世界观的变化与语言行为的变化同时发生。因此，我们可以合理地假设，地图赋予我们的关于我们自己的观点，以及我们作为由此构建的群体的一部分所假定的身份，在我们愿意获得和使用的语言的选择中发挥了一定的作用。
Abstract This article chronicles the history of mapmaking, showing how the way maps develop is in tandem with the development of patterns of group identity. The central question concerns our ways of conceptualising the physical world and whether these feed into language ideology, that set of beliefs, values and attitudes drawn from our socio-political environment, which directs, constrains and moulds our language behaviour. Benedict Anderson noted the parallel development of mapping, identity and language practices in nation building. My argument here is that it is also possible to see this association in the European medieval world and that there are some indicators that such co-occurrence is discernible in mapmaking, identity formation and language practices in post-national settings. As ever in the social sciences, it would be inappropriate to claim clear cause and effect. However, it is possible to demonstrate that changes in world view co-occur with changes in language behaviour. It may, therefore, be legitimate to hypothesise that the view of ourselves that maps give us and the identities we assume as part of groups thus constructed play some part in the choice of languages we willingly acquire and speak.