Language and resistance
Language and resistance

Summary/Abstract: Author attempts to explore emancipatory and political potential of the Declaration on common language behind its scientific and benign cultural claims. The reference to the commoness of this particular, polycentric language seem to function in the two – mutually exclusive – paradoxic ways: a) the commoness appears as the source of aggression and conflict, and b) the commoness appears as the source of everyday’s conducting ‘business as usual’ among common citizens of these states in the spheres of economy, culture, science, media communication, small-talk interacting, and therefore as possible means of resistance to a particularist regime. Viewed in the light of the first way, the language together with other ‘identity markers’ reveals itself as an ideological instrument for preservation of contemporary hegemony. However, author argues that to take language from the control of ethnonationalist elites is to take an important instrument of the oppression from their hands which is political act in itself.

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