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.
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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
Circa l’autore
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.
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