Language, Nation, and State: Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age
This book examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member nations is a crucial topic. Drawing on an international cast of contributors, the book explores the issues of monolingualism vs. plurilingualism within individual nations, the revival of languages in nations such as former soviet republics, and concludes...
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As Europe moves closer to adopting English and its de facto lingua franca, this collection of essays explores the links between politics, nationalism monolingualism, and multilingualism
The politics of language1Pt. 1The limits of national monolingualism17Ch. 1Difference rights and language in France19Ch. 2Langue d'oc, French and the construction of a state in France63Ch. 3Bilingualism and ethnic change in California79Pt. 2The fragility of plurilingual nations103Ch. 4Nationalism versus bilingualism105Ch. 5Struggling against territory : language policy in Canada133Ch. 6Beyond multiculturalism : identity, intercultural communication, and political culture - the case of Switzerland161Pt. 3Nation-making and linguistic revivals185Ch. 7Hebrew, the language of national daily life187Ch. 8Linguistic acculturations and reconstructions in the ULB group (Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus)201Ch. 9Unity and plurality in the Serbo-Croatian linguistic sphere215Ch. 10Languages in the wired world231
\ From the Publisher\ "By contrasting linguistic diversity and language policies across societies, this fine collection provides a unique lens into the status of minorities at a time when multiculturalism is on many scholarly and political agendas. The essays will be of great value to anyone interested in the variable articulation between collective identities, nations, ethnicities, states, and rights."\ -- Michele Lamont, Harvard University, co-author of Comparative \ Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States\ "This is a truly outstanding collection of essays on an important and timely subject. There are some outstanding monographs on particular countries, but this is a wide-ranging collection directed by two well- known scholars with an excellent comparative introductory essay. It covers France, the U.S.-California, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Serbo-Croatian, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Each of the essays is by a specialist and can be used - as I do in my own work - as a basic reference."\ -- Juan Linz, Yale University\ \ \ \
