Razmjoo Moghadam Somayeh, Barani Ghasem
Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Ali Abad Katoul, Iran.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jan 29;15:1438849. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1438849. eCollection 2024.
The current study systematically reviewed selected literature on background, current conceptualization, and direction of the issues of linguistic and cultural imperialism in publications of applied linguistics and language teaching to determine themes in the field. To do this, based on the inclusion/exclusion criteria, provided in the PRISMA Chart, 30 most updated and recent articles (mainly since 2020) were selected from the 5 main publications in the field through the advanced search engines. Then, two raters used coding books to screen and code necessary quantitative and qualitative data based on which, a total of 989 general coding schemes and categories were elicited from the coding of the main themes, trends, and findings of linguistic and cultural imperialism. Overall, the main themes of the study were provided in the form of the concepts and perspectives of linguistic and cultural imperialism, informed by the historical directions and the influence of the colonial era. Moreover, the role of power relations and prevailing linguistic dominance in supporting dominant languages and the influence of linguistic and cultural imperialism on L1 acquisition were presented and discussed. Since language imperialism can impact L1 language acquisition by marginalizing local languages and threatening them, each community needs to follow its practical language policy and plans to revitalize and support its languages and cultures. It was suggested that the intersection of linguistic and cultural imperialism impacts social and language identity which can lead to neo-imperialism, colonization, and language hierarchization. The study puts forward some recommendations and suggests future directions to reinforce language rights through different parties with the integration of a human rights perspective in language preservation efforts as the main actions that can be done to improve language awareness of the people. Policy-makers and language decision-makers can follow these guidelines to preserve the legal aspects of the language and cultural identity and utilize foreign languages in more rational and non-threatening ways.
本研究系统回顾了应用语言学和语言教学出版物中有关语言和文化帝国主义问题的背景、当前概念及方向的相关文献，以确定该领域的主题。为此，根据PRISMA图表中提供的纳入/排除标准，通过高级搜索引擎从该领域的5种主要出版物中选取了30篇最新的文章（主要是2020年以来的）。然后，两名评分者使用编码手册对必要的定量和定性数据进行筛选和编码，在此基础上，从语言和文化帝国主义的主要主题、趋势及研究结果的编码中总共得出了989个通用编码方案和类别。总体而言，该研究的主要主题以语言和文化帝国主义的概念及视角呈现，受到殖民时代的历史方向和影响。此外，还介绍并讨论了权力关系和普遍存在的语言主导地位在支持主导语言方面的作用，以及语言和文化帝国主义对第一语言习得的影响。由于语言帝国主义会通过边缘化和威胁当地语言来影响第一语言习得，每个社群都需要遵循其实际的语言政策和计划，以振兴和支持其语言及文化。研究表明，语言和文化帝国主义的交叉影响社会和语言认同，这可能导致新帝国主义、殖民化和语言等级化。该研究提出了一些建议，并指出了未来的方向，即通过不同方面整合人权视角来加强语言权利，这是在语言保护工作中提高人们语言意识的主要行动。政策制定者和语言决策者可以遵循这些指导方针，以维护语言和文化认同的法律层面，并以更合理、无威胁的方式使用外语。
