Politics without the vernacular: liberal culturalism and the language policy of the European Union

Bonotti, Matteo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8241-4896 2013. Politics without the vernacular: liberal culturalism and the language policy of the European Union. Politics 33 (3) , pp. 196-206. 10.1111/1467-9256.12006

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Abstract

Will Kymlicka's liberal culturalism presents a tension between the idea that linguistic diversity in multilingual polities should be protected and the claim that democratic debate across linguistic boundaries is unfeasible. In this article, I resolve that tension by arguing that trans-lingual democratic deliberation in multilingual polities is necessary to legitimise those measures aimed at the protection of linguistic diversity. I conclude that my account provides a coherent normative response to the challenges faced by the European Union (EU) in the field of language policy and that an EU-wide deliberative forum is not as unfeasible as Kymlicka suggests.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Publisher:	Blackwell
ISSN:	0263-3957
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 10:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/78988

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