LANGUAGE IN INDIA

RINGED REALITIES
Ranjit Singh Rangila

LINGUISTIC PLURALISM AS PART OF WISDOM CREATION

The strategy adopted in this paper creates a subtle conceptual leap that opens the problem of linguistic pluralism into a mega project of wisdom creation that human beings are engaged in wherever and whenever (see also Rangila 2001a). Seen from this end the issue of The Pluralistic Reality becomes a tiny problem of the problematic that gets created as human beings engage in negotiation with their existential universe and give rise to a whole hog play of reality as such.

PLULARISTIC REALITY AND CONCEPTUAL REALITY

The project opens the whole inquiry into a conceptual universe that human beings create. The ‘pluralistic reality’ enshrines in this universe as conceptual reality. Ringed realities are offered as conceptualization of this plurality at this conceptual level.

The strategy adopted here helps the writing to conceptualise the issue of pluralistic reality show with active reference to the archeological depth of civilization, obviously in this case the Indian civilization.

NEVER-ENDING PLAY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

And finally, to discover this level of reality definable in conceptual terms is to discover and gain the sustaining base for the pluralism that even linguistically articulated reality exhibits.

Much below the cognitive potential of human beings, there is a ‘never ending’ play of deep consciousness that receives the facts of existential universe in its own terms. It is here that one creates reality and discovers a possibility of its first showcasing. It is here that the basic modalities of negotiation with anything get formulated. And it is here that one is engaged in its interaction with whatever is known and knowable in a subtle way.

CONSTRUCTION IN MULTIPLE FORMS - LIFE AND CIVILIZATION

The minimum that, perhaps, happens is that man holds multiplicity of forms by driving them to their singular inferences. It is at that plain of one’s being that reality is created and realized in multiple forms, on the one hand, and construed in their singularities, on the other. It is possible to think of an initial architecture of this play of reality at the seat of deep consciousness.

This apparent reference to people and their civilization may signal an anthropological shade to the phenomenon of civilization. It is typical to the vision of C-semiology that this theory insists on prioritising a rather more primordial relationship between life and civilization, the relationship that is inclusive of human beings, but not human centered.

NOT HUMAN-CENTRED

There is a conceptual shift here. It may even be called an epistemic redefinition as well. That is, inquiry into the life in the universe is no longer received in man-centered terms, rather, man, together with any thing that may share the universe with it, becomes the part of the cosmic spread of the universe.

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