European Review
- European Review / Volume 6 / Issue 01 / February 1998, pp 103-107
- Copyright © Academia Europaea 1998
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1062798700003069 (About DOI), Published online: 13 July 2009
Mini-Focus: Postmodernism
The re-establishment of good taste: on the role of academies in the 21st century
Sture Allén*
Abstract
Of the multitude of languages, many are endangered and threatened with extinction; this is a great potential loss of witnesses to human perception. Academies should support non-majority languages and oppose the acceleration of their loss due to the rise of computers with programs limited to majority languages.
Sture Allén is the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy; he was previously Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation.
Footnotes
* The Swedish Academy, PO Box 2118,10313 Stockholm, Sweden.
