United in diversity: Multilingual language policy and democracy building in the EU
Keywords:
Democracy, multilingualism, European Union
Abstract
The present study undertakes to examine how plurilingual practices in a political entity relate to the principles of democracy, with a particular focus on the European Union. In academia, there are different theories as to the compatibility of democracy with linguistic fragmentation. These faultlines are mostly rooted in different perceptions of democratic citizenship. The present essay will take a closer look at the state-of-the-art of scientific literature with regard to the subject. The compatibility of multilingualism with democracy is all the more fascinating when examining the subject at transnational level, in the institutional realm of the European Union, a transnational entity exploding the framework of a traditional international organization.
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18. Réaume, Denise & Pinto, Meital: Philosophy of language policy. In Spolsky (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of language policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012 pp. 44-60.
19. Robichaud, David & De Schutter, Helder: Language is just a tool! On the instrumental approach to language policy. In Spolsky (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of language policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012 pp. 114-31
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21. Scharpf, Fritz: Governing Europe: Effective and Democratic? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
22. Schmitt, Carl: The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.
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26. Wright, Sue: Language policy, the nation and nationalism. In Spolsky (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of language policy. Cambridge: Cambrige University Press. 2012 pp. 61-76. ű
27. Wright, Sue: Language Rights, Democracy and the European Union. In Language Rights and Language Survival: Sociolinguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives Manchester: St. Jerome 2004. pp. 219-242.
28. Young, Iris: Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 1990.
Published
2024-05-20
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Szabo, O. K. (2024). United in diversity: Multilingual language policy and democracy building in the EU. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 29, 346. Retrieved from https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/18144
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