English Dictionary

linguistic imbalance

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The levels of official use or representation of languages that are perceived not to reflect their use in the population.

日本語の意味

公用語や行政、教育など公的な場での言語使用・表象の程度が、実際の地域住民の言語使用状況と一致していない状態 / 言語の公式な取り扱いや象徴的な表現が、日常的な言語の使用実態と乖離している現象

Researchers argued that the linguistic imbalance in official records undermines social cohesion and policy effectiveness.

研究者たちは、公的記録における言語の不均衡が社会的結束と政策の有効性を損なうと主張した。

意味（1）

The levels of official use or representation of languages that are perceived not to reflect their use in the population.

Before the emergence of democracy in South Africa, the apartheid regime had brought linguistic imbalance.

意味（2）

(linguistics) The differential in skills of a polyglot among the languages they know.

Whilst the principle of linguistic imbalance is confirmed by a number of researchers, Ridley and Singleton (1995), amongst others (e.g. Kellerman & Sharwood Smith, 1986), point out that the perception of language distance is at least an equally important factor.

意味（3）

The use of terminology in a language that treats different social categories (such as gender) unequally.

The aims of many feminist LP [language planning] efforts are to expose the inequalities in the linguistic portrayal of the sexes which reflect and contribute to the unequal positions of women and men in society and to take action to rectify this linguistic imbalance.

linguistic imbalances （ plural ）