Title: Community and communication: the role of language in nation building and European integration
Abstract: Introduction - the themes of the book definitions theories of nationalism the modernists, industrialization and democracy the post-modernists and the invention of tradition the role of language in nation state sormation the three European models - assimilation, blood and belonging and fragmentation language as a key organizing principle of nationalism cotending schools in the debate the linguistic realities of multingual states the weakening of the concept of sovereignty, globalisation and internationalization in the legal, political, economic and cultural domains the growing role of English as the medium of these phenomena the growth of the European Community theories of integration the role of language theories of democracy - participatory and liberal representative democracy the essential role of language in democracy the democratic deficit in the E.U. and the need to develop new practices for a multingaul polity managing plurilingualism in the insitutions of the E.U. new and smaller polities Europe of the regions support for the lesser-sued languages of Europe language in the domains of defence, education and research networks.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
Language: en
Type: book
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