Linguistic justice for Europe and for the world / Philippe Van Parijs.

Author
Parijs, Philippe van, 1951- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (312 p.)

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Oxford political theory. [More in this series]
Summary note
In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes indignantly denounced as being grossly unjust. Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World starts off arguing that the dissemination of competence in a common lingua franca is a process to be welcomed and accelerated, most fundamentally because it provides the struggle for greater justice in Europe and in the world with an essential weapon: a cheap medium of communication.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
  • Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. LINGUA FRANCA; 1.1 Europe's lingua franca; 1.2 A global lingua franca?; 1.3 Probability-driven language learning; 1.4 Maxi-min language use; 1.5 The maxi-min dynamics; 1.6 Deviation from maxi-min: didactic and symbolic; 1.7 Maxi-min dynamics and power relationships; 1.8 Power and the rise of English; 1.9 Lingua franca and justificatory community; 1.10 Lingua franca and trans-national demos; 1.11 A vector of ideological domination?; 1.12 Go English?; Appendix: three alternatives to lingua franca convergence; 1. Babel Fish; 2. Esperanto; (a) Neutrality
  • (b) Simplicity3. Lingua franca pluralism; (a) Disjunctive plural regime; (b) Conjunctive plural regime; 2. LINGUISTIC JUSTICE AS FAIR COOPERATION; 2.1 Anglophones as free riders; 2.2 Indefinite learning versus one-off conversion; 2.3 A stylized picture; 2.4 Efficient cost sharing: Church and King; 2.5 Equal cost sharing: Pool; 2.6 Equal benefit sharing: Gauthier; 2.7 Equal ratio of cost to benefit: Homans; 2.8 Why the small may subsidize the big; 2.9 Estimating the cost of language learning; 2.10 Real-life approximations; 2.11 A linguistic tax?; 2.12 Compensatory poaching?; Appendix
  • 1. Formal expression of the four criteria of fair cooperation in the case of two linguistic communities2. Equal cost-benefit ratios with many linguistic communities; 3. LINGUISTIC JUSTICE AS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY; 3.1 Liberal-egalitarian justice; 3.2 Language, religion, and rights; 3.3 Language-based inequality of opportunities; 3.4 Tinkering with the language regime; 3.5 Transfers to the linguistically handicapped; 3.6 Dissemination through immersion schooling; 3.7 An inexpensive instrument of dissemination; 3.8 A ban on dubbing?; 3.9 Disadvantage reversed?
  • 4. LINGUISTIC JUSTICE AS PARITY OF ESTEEM4.1 Equal respect; 4.2 All languages on the same symbolic footing; 4.3 Piggy-backing on the instrumental function; 4.4 Who should pay for costly symbols?; 4.5 Downsized plurilingualism; 4.6 Rhetoric and exhortation; 5. LINGUISTIC TERRITORIALITY; 5.1 A territorially differentiated coercive regime; 5.2 Non-starters: right of the soil and national sovereignty; 5.3 First argument: colonial attitude; 5.4 Second argument: kindness-driven agony; 5.5 Third argument: every tongue a queen; 5.6 Territorial reciprocity; 5.7 Pacification through territoriality?
  • 5.8 Territoriality versus heterogeneity5.9 The cost of universal proficiency; 5.10 The ground floor of the world; 5.11 Diaspora buffers and regime relaxation; 5.12 Deep heterogeneity; 5.13 Democratic settlement; 5.14 Fair resignation; 6. LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY; 6.1 What is diversity?; 6.2 What is linguistic diversity?; 6.3 Multilingualism against linguistic diversity?; 6.4 Local diversity versus inter-local diversity; 6.5 Curse or treasure?; 6.6 Economic solidarity, identification, and communication; 6.7 Local diversity and solidarity
  • 6.8 Inter-local diversity and solidarity: an unexpected alliance?
ISBN
  • 0-19-180328-6
  • 1-283-34844-6
  • 9786613348449
  • 0-19-161712-1
OCLC
763157737
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