A language stays rich only through risking contact with other cultures

Evidence

Whether it is vehiculaI’ or not, a language that does not risk the disturbances arising from contact among cultures, and not ardently involved in the rcflections generated by an equal relation with other languages, seems to me doomed to real impoverishment. … It is true that the leveling effect of Anglo-Arnerican is a persistent threat for everyone and that this language, in turn, risks being transformed into a technical salesman’s Esperanto, a perfunctory containerization of expression (neither Faulkner’s nor Hopkins’s language but not the language of London pubs or Bronx warehouses either). — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 578

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Glissant’s creolization as mutual transformation, and to the reader’s question about whether equal-relation contact is the mechanism that loosens fixed identity without collapse. — connects to: Pidgin languages embody Relation negatively by belonging to no single tradition — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 477; Total linguistic multiplicity, not selective loyalty, justifies defending all languages — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 503; One defends a threatened language for world diversity, not only personal identity. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 514 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultures cannot be isolated or defined but only change through contact #expands (0.90) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 828
• Migration erodes boundaries between languages, cultures, and nation-states #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3805
• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning #complicates (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14
• All languages and cultures are unconsciously hybrid yet claim exclusive ownership #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3026