TY - BOOK AU - Castiglione,Dario AU - Longman,Chris TI - The language question in Europe and diverse societies: political, legal and social perspectives T2 - Oñati international series in law and society SN - 9781847313560 AV - P119.32.E85 L36 2007eb U1 - 306.4494 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford, Portland, Or. PB - Hart Pub. KW - Language policy KW - Europe KW - Linguistic minorities KW - Multilingualism KW - Minorités linguistiques KW - Multilinguisme KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics KW - Sociolinguistics KW - bisacsh KW - Language and languages KW - Law and legislation KW - fast KW - Political aspects KW - Vielfalt KW - gnd KW - Minderheit KW - Sprache KW - Sprachpolitik KW - Sprachenrecht KW - Law - Non-U.S KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Law - Europe, except U.K KW - Languages KW - Langues KW - Aspect politique KW - Europäische Union KW - swd KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: negotiating language regimes -- Theoretical foundations of European language debates -- Language policy of a civic nation-state: constitutional patriotism and minority language rights -- Intercultural recognition and linguistic diversity in Europe -- What is a language? The difficulties inherent in language rights -- Linguistic diversity and the paradox of rights discourse -- Minority languages, law and politics: tracing EC action -- The political discourse on multilingualism in the European Union -- English as lingua franca: a challenge to the doctrine of multilingualism -- Europe's linguistic challenge -- The Babel of Europe? Networks and communicative spaces; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - Recent developments in the European integration process have raised, amongst many other things, the issue of linguistic diversity, for some a stumbling block to the creation of a European democratic polity and its legal and social institutions. The solution to the 'question of language', involves an understanding of the role played by natural languages and the consequent design of policies and institutional mechanisms to facilitate inter-linguistic and intercultural communication. This is not an exclusively European problem, and nor is it entirely new, for it is also the problem of linguistic UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=216506 ER -