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

ISBN-13: 9781349527830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 249 str.

Tony Judt; Denis Lacorne; T. Judt

Opis

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

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

Introduction; T.Judt & D.Lacorne PART 1: THE LIMITS OF NATIONAL MONOLINGUALISM French Jacobinism and the Challenge of Linguistic, Ethnic, and Regional Variety; A.Fenet Occitan: The History of Decline; P.Martel Language Wars in the USA: The Case of California; D.Lopez PART 2: THE FRAGILITY OF PLURILINGUAL NATIONS Nationalism versus Bilingualism: The Belgian Case; A.von Busekist Struggling Against Territory: Language Policy in Canada; K.McRoberts Multiculturalism and Plurilingualism: The Swiss Experience; U.Windisch PART 3: NATION-MAKING AND LINGUISTIC REVIVALS The Invention of Hebrew as a Daily Language; A.Dieckhoff Acculturation and Linguistic Reconstruction in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belorusse; D.Beauvois Unity and Plurality in the Serbo-Croatian Linguistic Domain; P.Garde Conclusion: The Internet: A New Babel? Languages and Language Communities in the Age of Electronic Discourses; G.Nunberg

O autorze

TONY JUDT is Professor of European Studies at New York University and Director of the Remarque Institute. His books include A Grand Illusion and Past Imperfect.

DENIS LACORNE is Director of Research at FNSP/CERI and teaches at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He has authored or edited six books, all published in France.