Abstract

ABOUCHAAR, Alberto. AGAINST THE IDEAL SPEAKER-LISTENER AND THE IDEOLOGY OF MONOLINGUALISM. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.2, pp.85-97. ISSN 0120-338X.

This article examines monolingualism as an ideology that underlies modern linguistics. While the monolingual subject represents the norm, the natural human condition, the bilingual subject appears to be a derivation, a special case, or an extraordinary phenomenon. Through a deconstructive type of reading (Derrida, 2009, 2000), this article speculates on the possibility of a novel linguistics of the bilingual: a diverse subject with fluid identities and multiple languages. The paper concludes, however, that the displacement of the “monolingual being” from linguistics could entail a certain disruption of the conceptual framework of this modern science.

Keywords : deconstruction; Cartesian linguistics; ideal speaker-listener; monolingualism; bilingualism.

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