Linguistic Diversity for Democratic Citizenship in Europe
Author | : Education Committee, Council for Cultural Co-operation |
Publisher | : Council of Europe |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Education Committee, Council for Cultural Co-operation |
Publisher | : Council of Europe |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne Lise Kjær |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317104919 |
What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes? Is it an obstacle to deliberative democracy and a hindrance to legal certainty, or a cultural and economic asset and a prerequisite for the free movement of citizens? This book examines the tensions and contradictions of European language laws and policy from a multi-disciplinary perspective. With contributions from leading researchers in EU law and legal theory, political science, sociology, sociolinguistic and cognitive linguistics, it combines mutually exclusive and competing perspectives of linguistic diversity. The work will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the areas of European law, legal theory and linguistics.
Author | : Dario Castiglione |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2007-03-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1847313566 |
Recent developments in the European integration process have raised, amongst many other things, the issue of linguistic diversity, for some a stumbling block to the creation of a European democratic polity and its legal and social institutions. The solution to the 'question of language', involves an understanding of the role played by natural languages and the consequent design of policies and institutional mechanisms to facilitate inter-linguistic and intercultural communication. This is not an exclusively European problem, and nor is it entirely new, for it is also the problem of linguistic majorities and minorities within unitary nation-states. However, the effects of globalization and the diffusion of multiculturalism within nation-states have given renewed emphasis to the question of language in diverse societies. Facing the question anew involves reconsidering traditional ideas about social communication and the public sphere, about opinion-formation and diffusion, about the protection of cultural and linguistic minorities, and about the role that language plays in the process of formation of political and legal cultures. This volume is intended as a multidisciplinary contribution towards studying and assessing the range of problems that form the 'language question' in Europe and diverse societies.
Author | : Will Kymlicka |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003-05-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191586110 |
Disputes over language policy are a persistent feature of the political life of many states around the world. Multilingual countries in the West such as Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and Canada have long histories of conflict over language rights. In many countries in Eastern Europe and the Third World, efforts to construct common institutions and a shared identity have been severely complicated by linguistic diversity. Indigenous languages around the world are in danger of disappearing. Even in the United States, where English is widely accepted as the language of public life, the linguistic rights of Spanish-speakers are hotly-contested. Not surprisingly, therefore, political theorists have started to examine questions of language policy, and how they relate to broader issues of democracy, justice and rights. This volume provides the reader with an up-to-date overview of the emerging debates over the role of language rights and linguistic diversity within political theory. It brings together many of the leading political theorists who work in the field, together with some of the most important social scientists, with the aim of exploring how political theorists can conceptualize issues of language rights and contribute to public debates on language policy. Questions of language policy are not only of enormous political importance in many countries, but also help to illuminate some of the most important debates in contemporary political theory, including questions of citizenship, deliberative democracy, nationalism, multiculturalism, identity politics, group rights, the liberal-communitarian debate, and so on. The thirteen essays in this volume highlight both the empirical constraints and normative complexities of language policy, and identify the important challenges and opportunities that linguistic diversity raises for contemporary political theory.
Author | : Xabier Arzoz |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027228338 |
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Author | : Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez |
Publisher | : Universidad de Deusto |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 8498307929 |
The democratic management of cultural diversity is the greatest political challenge for present-day European societies. The plural character of our societies forces us to rethink the basic political concepts, starting off from a new idea of inclusive and plural d¬emocracy. The application of human rights must be reconsidered in the light of presentday reality so that democratic states are able to guarantee the benefi t of these rights to all persons through their identity and not in spite of it, thus creating political spaces that are open to a multi-identity coexistence.
Author | : Anne Lise Kjær |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : European Union countries |
ISBN | : 9781315592473 |