This paper is a linguistic, anthropological and philosophical exploration of language, with particular focus on language contact. The goal is not to address linguistic phenomena from a descriptive perspective, in the classical sense of the term, nor as if they were a “given”, and nothing further. Nor is the goal to craft a model. Instead it is an attempt to account for all relevant elements which (empirically) come into play in ordinary language use, considering them both in terms of language dynamics and in terms of language usage; this necessarily entails taking into consideration our own practices, as actors of communication and as builders of knowledge. We are ever stakeholders in this play (and its plays) because we are the ones who identify and/or attribute relevance.In other words, this text is a reflection on the (our) frameworks established through communication practices (frameworks which naturally have an impact on the form of our tools, including languages!) It highlights that the objectivization of phenomena which underlies our practices (whether academic or not) is closely dependent on the means by which we grasp the phenomena—this is nothing new but is worth noting afresh.Methodologically speaking, observing this point is an essential element in the elaboration of a theory to account for how phenomena are empirically grasped, and more particularly what it entails in the field of ‘language contact’.

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围绕“接触”概念在语言、它们的动态和“我们”方面的曲折

这篇论文是对语言的语言学、人类学和哲学探索，特别关注语言接触。我们的目标不是从描述的角度来解决语言现象，在该术语的经典意义上，也不是将它们视为“给定的”，仅此而已。制作模型也不是目标。相反，它试图解释（经验上）在日常语言使用中发挥作用的所有相关元素，从语言动态和语言使用的角度考虑它们；这必然需要考虑我们自己的实践，作为交流的参与者和知识的构建者。我们一直是这场戏剧（及其戏剧）的利益相关者，因为我们是识别和/或归因相关性的人。换句话说，