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Language, Nation and State: Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age

by Judt, T.
Language, Nation and State: Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age

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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 with a look at language in the electronic age.

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"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

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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

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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 with a look at language in the electronic age.


About the Author

Tony Judt is Professor of European Studies at NYU and Director of the Remarque Institute.

Denis Lacorne is Director of Research at FNSP/CERI and teaches at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Table of Contents

Introduction--Tony Judt and Denis Lacorne * Part 1: The Limits of National Monolingualism * French Jacobinism and the Challenge of Linguistic, Ethnic, and Regional Variety--Alain Fenet * Occitan: The History of Decline--Philippe Martel * 3. Language Wars in the USA: The Case of California--David Lopez * Part 2: The Fragility of Plurilingual Nations * Nationalism versus Bilingualism: The Belgian Case--Astrid von Busekist * Struggling Against Territory: Language Policy in Canada--Kenneth McRoberts * Multiculturalism and Plurilingualism: The Swiss Experience--Uli Windisch * Part 3: Nation-Making and Linguistic Revivals * The Invention of Hebrew as a Daily Language--Alain Dieckhoff * Acculturation and Linguistic Reconstruction in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belorusse-Daniel Beauvois * Unity and Plurality in the Serbo-Croatian Linguistic Domain--Paul Garde * Conclusion: The Internet: A New Babel? * Languages and Language Communities in the Age of Electronic Discourses--Geoffrey Nunberg


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ISBN:
9781403963932
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
10/01/2004
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Series info:
Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies
Language:
English
Pages:
249
Height:
.81IN
Width:
6.28IN
Thickness:
.81 in.
LCCN:
2003064010
Series:
Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
Number of Units:
1
Series Volume:
v. 49
UPC Code:
2147483647
Editor:
Denis Lacorne
Author:
Denis Lacorne
Author:
Tony Judt
Editor:
Tony Judt
Editor:
Tony; Lacorne, Denis Judt
Ed:
T. Judt
Subject:
Multilingualism - Political aspects
Subject:
Multilingualism
Subject:
Politics-United States Foreign Policy
Subject:
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Subject:
Political aspects
Subject:
Language and languages
Subject:
Sociolinguistics

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