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Mar 29, 2022 · Drawing on a new study, Nils Ringe shows that multilingualism has an important depoliticising effect on the EU policy process that reduces the potential for conflict between actors. Multilingualism is an ever-present feature in numerous political contexts around the world, including both multilingual states like India, Canada, and Belgium and ...
May 21, 2021 · Introduction. The European Union (EU) is a fascinating and ‘crucial site of investigation’ for anyone interested in ‘the future of democracy’ (Ives, Citation 2004, p. 43), in the dynamics between unity and multiplicity in diverse communities (Leal, Citation 2013), in the interplay between nationalism and transnationalism (Kraus, Citation 2008) and in the impact of these phenomena on ...
The British withdrawal from the European Union is likely to increase rather than decrease the importance of a multilingual language policy. Keywords European Union, language policy, linguistic justice, multilingualism, translation costs Corresponding author: Michele Gazzola, Department of Education Studies, Research Group Economics and Language ...
Jul 28, 2016 · This article compares the effectiveness and the fairness of four alternative policies aimed at managing multilingual communication in the European Union. The current multilingual regime, based on the formal equality among the official languages of the European Union Member States disenfranchises only a small percentage of residents. On the contrary, an English-only language policy would ...
A fully multilingual communication policy ensures accessibility to content by 97-99% of EU adult residents. The lack of attention to the importance of multilingualism in communication policy can potentially fuel perceptions of the EU being distant and disconnected from citizens given the current distribution of language skills in the population.
Feb 20, 2006 · The current full multilingual policy of the European Union based on translation and interpreting not only is (and will be for the foreseeable future) the most effective language policy among the ...
"The Language(s) of Politics stands as a pioneering work that is bound to leave an important mark on the landscape of academic scholarship on European policy-making. This book provides scholars in the fields of comparative legislative studies, the European Union, and text analysis with the opportunity to engage in fresh debates and to seek ...
