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Community and Communication : The Role of Language in Nation State Building and European Integration / Sue Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Multilingual Matters ; 114Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2000]Copyright date: 2000Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800418202
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction The themes of the book -- Chapter 1 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 -- Chapter 2 The role of language in nation state formation. The three European models: assimilation, blood and belonging and fragmentation -- Chapter 3 Language as a key organising principle of nationalism. Contending schools in the debate. The linguistic realities of multilingual states -- Chapter 4 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 -- Chapter 5 The growth of the European Community. Theories of integration. The role of language -- Chapter 6 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 -- Chapter 7 Managing plurilingualism in the institutions of the EU -- Chapter 8 New and smaller polities. Europe of the Regions. Support for the lesser-used languages of Europe -- Chapter 9 Language in the domains of defence, education and research networks -- Chapter 10 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book considers the issue of language in the European Union. 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction The themes of the book -- Chapter 1 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 -- Chapter 2 The role of language in nation state formation. The three European models: assimilation, blood and belonging and fragmentation -- Chapter 3 Language as a key organising principle of nationalism. Contending schools in the debate. The linguistic realities of multilingual states -- Chapter 4 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 -- Chapter 5 The growth of the European Community. Theories of integration. The role of language -- Chapter 6 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 -- Chapter 7 Managing plurilingualism in the institutions of the EU -- Chapter 8 New and smaller polities. Europe of the Regions. Support for the lesser-used languages of Europe -- Chapter 9 Language in the domains of defence, education and research networks -- Chapter 10 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book considers the issue of language in the European Union. 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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