Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe

Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument about the nature of democracy and how the current changes in governmental discourses accommodate linguistic and cultural diversity.

Glyn Williams is Research Professor, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.

List of Figures

vii

List of Tables

viii

Series Editor's Preface

x

Preface

xi

Introduction: the Minoritisation of Language Groups

1

(21)

1 Introduction

1

(4)

2 Language and the state in pre-modern Europe

5

(5)

3 Modernity

10

(6)

4 Meta-discourse

16

(6)

1 Conceptualisation, Data and Method

22

(19)

SECTION I CONCEPTUALISATION

22

(12)

1 Introduction

22

(5)

2 The production and reproduction of minority language groups

27

(5)

3 Language use as social practice

32

(2)

4 Conclusion

34

(1)

SECTION II THE DATA AND METHOD

34

(7)

1 Introduction

34

(1)

2 Data sources

35

(3)

3 Scale construction

38

(1)

4 Conclusion

39

(2)

2 Legitimation

41

(31)

1 Introduction

41

(3)

2 Border Treaties

44

(6)

3 Stateless languages

50

(20)

4 The political system and diversity

70

(2)

3 Education

72

(18)

1 Introduction

72

(3)

2 Centralisation and devolution

75

(2)

3 Educational levels

77

(11)

4 Conclusion

88

(2)

4 Reproduction: Family, Community and Household Media Use

90

(44)

1 Introduction

90

(3)

2 The family

93

(2)

3 Language group endogamy

95

(12)

4 Community

107

(15)

5 Media in the household

122

(9)

6 Conclusion

131

(3)

5 Language Prestige

134

(16)

1 Introduction

134

(5)

2 Minority languages and language prestige

139

(6)

3 The media sector

145

(3)

4 Conclusion

148

(2)

6 Institutionalisation of Language Use

150

(41)

1 Introduction

150

(1)

2 Family

151

(6)

3 Community

157

(6)

4 Education

163

(4)

5 Work

167

(9)

6 Attitudes and identity

176

(7)

7 Other language groups

183

(7)

8 Conclusion

190

(1)

7 Data Evaluation

191

(20)

1 Introduction

191

(1)

2 Analysis of scales

192

(9)

3 The restructuring of political and economic space

201

(2)

4 The clusters

203

(5)

5 Conclusion

208

(3)

8 Diversity and Democracy

211

(24)

1 Introduction

211

(1)

2 Diversity and democracy

212

(4)

3 Devolution in Europe

216

(9)

4 Governance, digital democracy and the New Economy

225

(4)

5 From representative to participatory democracy

229

(3)

6 Conclusion

232

(3)

Appendix: Scales

235

(2)

Notes

237

(2)

Bibliography

239

(9)

Index

248

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