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  title info:
    title: Linguistic justice for Europe and for the world
  name:
    name part: Parijs, Philippe van
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    copyright date: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages)
  abstract: 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 and of mobilization. However, the resulting linguistic situation can plausibly be regarded as unjust in three distinct senses. Firstly, the adoption of one natural language as the lingua franca implies that its native speakers are getting a free ride by benefiting costlessly from the learning effort of others. Secondly, they gain greater opportunities as a result of competence in their native language becoming a more valuable asset. And thirdly the privilege systematically given to one language fails to show equal respect for the various languages with which different portions of the population concerned identify. The book spells out the corresponding interpretations of linguistic justice as cooperative justice, distributive justice and parity of esteem, respectively. And it discusses systematically a wide range of policies that might help achieve linguistic justice in these three senses, from a linguistic tax on Anglophone countries to the banning of dubbing or the linguistic territoriality principle. Against this background, the book argues that linguistic diversity is not valuable in itself but it will nonetheless need to be protected as a by-product of the pursuit of linguistic justice as parity of esteem.
  table of contents: Introduction; 1. Lingua Franca; Appendix: Three Alternatives to Lingua Franca Convergence; 2. Linguistic Justice as Fair Cooperation; Appendices; 3. Linguistic Justice as Equal Opportunity; 4. Linguistic Justice as Parity Of Esteem; 5. Linguistic Territoriality; 6. Linguistic Diversity; Conclusion; Bibliography.
  note: Philippe Van Parijs.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Lingua francas
  subject:
    topic: English language
    geographic: Foreign countries
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
  subject:
    topic: Anglais (Langue)
    geographic: Pays étrangers
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Foreign countries
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
  subject:
    topic: Lingua francas
  classification: PM7802 .P37 2011eb
  classification: 401.3
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  record info:
    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 110707
    record change date: 20260318185532.6
    record identifier: in00005707222
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng