Electronic Literature and Biocultural Diversity: BABEL REVOLUTION, a Heterolingual Research-Creation Project
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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_11-1_7Keywords:
biodiversity, linguistic diversity, sociolinguistics, plurilingual pedagogy, practice-based research, participatory narrativeAbstract
BABEL REVOLUTION (https://babel.utc.fr/) is a creative project developed by a multidisciplinary team and inspired by a research question about the link between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity. In a movement between scholarly imaginaries and writing practices, this creative practice-based research project has led to the development of a rhizomatic online participatory work. The first part of this paper presents the theoretical framework that informed the project, at the crossroads of sociolinguistics, literary and didactic plurilingualism, and environmental issues. The second part analyses digital works dealing with similar questions, while the third presents the design and development process of BABEL REVOLUTION. The work seeks to create a space conducive to the emergence of a contributory narrative by bringing into contact languages and cultures, social and biological aspects, with an aim that is at once literary, scientific, and pedagogical.
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