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Language, nation, and state : identity politics in a multilingual age
- Title
- Language, nation, and state : identity politics in a multilingual age / edited by Tony Judt and Denis Lacorne.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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- Description
- viii, 249 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "In this collection of original essays Denis Lacorne and Tony Judt have brought together ten experts from North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Israel to address the legal, communal, historical and political dimensions of this "language question" in modern and modernizing societies. Ranging from the conflict between French and Occitan in the construction of modern France to the future of language use on the Internet, Language, Nation, and State contributes to some of the most contentious debates of our time: What are the sources of ethnic conflict? Is multiculturalism a solution to the problems of linguistic minorities? Are there any models of successful multilingual and stable societies? The authors have no single answer to propose to these questions but no one with an interest in them - which is to say no one actively concerned with the dilemmas of our contemporary world - can ignore the issues raised in this book."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Europe in transition (New York, N.Y.)
- Uniform Title
- Politique de Babel. English.
- Europe in transition (New York, N.Y.)
- Subjects
- Note
- Papers presented at a conference held in Paris in Sept. 1998, co-sponsored by the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales and the Remarque Institute.
- "The present edition follows the French version, except for the Introduction which has been re-cast for an English readership."--Pref.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The politics of language / Tony Judt and Denis Lacorne -- Pt. 1. The limits of national monolingualism -- Ch. 1. Difference rights and language in France / Alain Fenet -- Ch. 2. Langue d'oc, French and the construction of a state in France / Philippe Martel -- Ch. 3. Bilingualism and ethnic change in California / David Lopez -- Pt. 2. The fragility of plurilingual nations -- Ch. 4. Nationalism versus bilingualism / Astrid von Busekist -- Ch. 5. Struggling against territory : language policy in Canada / Kenneth McRoberts -- Ch. 6. Beyond multiculturalism : identity, intercultural communication, and political culture - the case of Switzerland / Uli Windisch -- Pt. 3. Nation-making and linguistic revivals -- Ch. 7. Hebrew, the language of national daily life / Alain Dieckhoff -- Ch. 8. Linguistic acculturations and reconstructions in the ULB group (Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus) / Daniel Beauvois -- Ch. 9. Unity and plurality in the Serbo-Croatian linguistic sphere / Paul Garde -- Ch. 10. Languages in the wired world / Geoffrey Nunberg.
- ISBN
- 1403963932
- LCCN
- 2003064010
- OCLC
- 53306528
- ocm53306528
- SCSB-5151055
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries