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9781853594847

Community and Communication The Role of Language in Nation State Building and European Integration

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    9781853594847

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    1853594849

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-03-31
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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Summary

This book considers the issue of language in the European Union. Without a community of communication, the EU must remain a trading association run in an autocratic way by bilingual patrician technocrats; with a community of communication, the European Union could develop democratic structures and legitimacy and give meaning to its policies of free movement. How to achieve that community of communication is the biggest challenge facing Europe today.

Author Biography

Sue Wright is a member of the Department of Languages and European Studies at Aston University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction The themes of the book 1(9)
Definitions. Theories of nationalism and the role of language. The nationalists and linguistic nationalism. The modernists, industrialisation and democracy. The post-modernists and the invention of tradition
10(21)
The role of language in nation state formation. The three European models: assimilation, blood and belonging and fragmentation
31(30)
Language as a key organising principle of nationalism. Contending schools in the debate. The linguistic realities of multilingual states
61(18)
The weakening of the concept of sovereignty. Globalisation and internationalisation in the legal, political, economic and cultural domains. The growing role of English as the medium of these phenomena
79(29)
The growth of the European Community. Theories of integration. The role of language
108(18)
Theories of democracy: participatory and liberal representative democracy. The essential role of language in democracy. The democratic deficit in the EU and the need to develop new practices for a multilingual polity
126(36)
Managing plurilingualism in the institutions of the EU
162(17)
New and smaller polities. Europe of the Regions. Support for the lesser-used languages of Europe
179(15)
Language in the domains of defence, education and research networks
194(36)
Conclusions
230(25)
Bibliography 255(20)
Index 275

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