Community and communication the role of language in nation state building and European integration

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wright, Sue, 1947- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters 2000.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Multilingual matters ; v. 114.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32077749*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The themes of the book 1
  • 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
  • The role of language in nation state formation
  • The three European models: assimilation, blood and belonging and fragmentation
  • Language as a key organising principle of nationalism
  • Contending schools in the debate
  • The linguistic realities of multilingual states
  • 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
  • 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 EU and the need to develop new practices for a multilingual polity
  • Managing plurilingualism in the institutions of the EU
  • 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 194.