Contemporary languages are newly conscious of their own possible disappearance

Evidence

This violence has been brought to a crisis bya new fact that is suddenly part of the existence of conternporary languages: their widespread and uneasy consciousness that they are subject to disappeal’ance. Languages no longer die away gently; they no longer develop innocently. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349

Their threatened violence is, admittedly, a synthesis but one spread throughout the expanse. This violence has been brought to a crisis bya new fact that is suddenly part of the existence of conternporary languages: their widespread and uneasy consciousness that they are subject to disappeal’ance. Languages no longer die away gently; they no longer develop innocently. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349

Categorization

• SEED: The death-consciousness of languages as a modern condition could anchor an essay on endangered-language policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349
• XREF: connects to: Languages lacking economic support are slowly disappearing — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 578; Most North American Indigenous languages will be extinct by 2050 — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 679

Broader Connections

• Languages lacking economic support are slowly disappearing #expands (0.95) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 578