Language and Identity Politics

A Cross-Atlantic Perspective
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-942-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era’s defining political dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Späti, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Language and the Rise of Identity Politics: An Introduction

Christina Späti

PART I: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY POLITICS: THEORY AND CONCEPTS

Chapter 1. Language and Collective Identity: Theorising Complexity

Peter Ives

Chapter 2. The Politics of Linguistic Identity in Europe: Between the Expression of Power and the Power of Expressivity

Peter A. Kraus

PART II: LANGUAGE AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MULTILINGUAL STATES

Chapter 3. Language and Identity Politics in Belgium

Claude Javeau

Chapter 4. Plurilingualism and Identity Politics: The Case of Switzerland

Christina Späti

Chapter 5. Languages and Collective Identities in Switzerland: The Case of Bilingual Cantons (Bern, Fribourg, Valais)

Manuel Meune

Chapter 6. Language Rights and Language Endangerment in Canada: The Case of Indigenous Languages

Donna Patrick

PART III: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN IMMIGRATION SOCIETIES

Chapter 7. Immigrants and the Reframing of Language and National Identity Politics in the United States

Ronald Schmidt, Sr.

Chapter 8. Challenges of Diversity: Language and Immigration in Switzerland

Damir Skenderovic

Chapter 9. Language and the Transformation of Identity Politics in Minority Francophone Communities in Canada: Between Collective Linguistic Identity and Individualistic Integration Policies

Nicole Gallant

Conclusion: The Problematic Nexus of Language and Identity: Some Concluding Remarks

Robert Gould

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Späti, Christina
Christina Späti is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg and Dean of the Faculty of Historical Sciences at Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz. Her research focuses on language politics in multilingual states, institutional and societal bilingualism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and 1968 in Western Europe.

Christina Späti is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg and Dean of the Faculty of Historical Sciences at Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz. Her research focuses on language politics in multilingual states, institutional and societal bilingualism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and 1968 in Western Europe.