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This paper intends to illustrate the correlation between linguistics and social movements within Postmodernity, analysing a sample of concrete discourse: i.e. the congress on Linguistic Diversity, Sustainability and Peace held in the Forum Universal de las Culturas at Barcelona in 2004. In this analysis the influence of the most striking social movements in the discourse of linguistics will be surveyed: postmodernism, anti-globalization movements, regional nationalisms and environmentalist movements. The corpus studied for this paper is made up of the written texts of the presentations made at the Linguistic Diversity congress. The texts are analyzed on two levels: on the macro-level of the meaning of the discourse, the topics of the discourse will be identified with a special focus on topics characteristic of postmodern thought. On the lexical level, terms related to two key topics of both the congress and postmodernity -- modernism and nationalism -- will be analyzed in the context in which they occur. Finally, the "greening" of the discourse of linguistics will be analysed through study of metaphors and neologisms.
