Language, nation, and state : identity politics in a multilingual age

Author(s)

• Judt, Tony
• Lacorne, Denis

Bibliographic Information

Language, nation, and state : identity politics in a multilingual age

edited by Tony Judt and Denis Lacorne

（Europe in transition : the NYU European studies series）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

• : hbk

Other Title

La politique de Babel : du monolinguisme d'État au plurilinguisme des peuples

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 an Introduction that has been re-cast for an English readership"--Pref

Originally published: Paris : Karthala, 2002

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member nations is a crucial topic. Drawing on an international cast of contributors, the book explores the issues of monolingualism vs. plurilingualism within individual nations, the revival of languages in nations such as former soviet republics, and concludes with a look at language in the electronic age.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• T.Judt & D.Lacorne PART 1: THE LIMITS OF NATIONAL MONOLINGUALISM French Jacobinism and the Challenge of Linguistic, Ethnic, and Regional Variety
• A.Fenet Occitan: The History of Decline
• P.Martel Language Wars in the USA: The Case of California
• D.Lopez PART 2: THE FRAGILITY OF PLURILINGUAL NATIONS Nationalism versus Bilingualism: The Belgian Case
• A.von Busekist Struggling Against Territory: Language Policy in Canada
• K.McRoberts Multiculturalism and Plurilingualism: The Swiss Experience
• U.Windisch PART 3: NATION-MAKING AND LINGUISTIC REVIVALS The Invention of Hebrew as a Daily Language
• A.Dieckhoff Acculturation and Linguistic Reconstruction in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belorusse
• D.Beauvois Unity and Plurality in the Serbo-Croatian Linguistic Domain
• P.Garde Conclusion: The Internet: A New Babel? Languages and Language Communities in the Age of Electronic Discourses
• G.Nunberg

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Details

• NCID: BA70177303
• ISBN:
  • 1403963932
• LCCN: 2003064010
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 249 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P119.3
  • DC22 : 306.44/9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Multilingualism -- Political aspects -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA53408308