Language, Geography and Politics: The "Territorial Imperative" Debate in the European Context  

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Stevenson, Patrick ; Mar-Molinero, Clare

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 15 no. 2 (1991), page 162-176.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Laponce takes issue with the language policies pursued by the Canadian government, arguing that they contradict "the need of a minority language to defend itself by gaining exclusive control over a specific territorial niche", because "who says language says territorial boundaries and border control". In a strongly worded rejoinder, Pattanayak and Bayer accuse Laponce of "pleading the cause of linguistic apartheid. . . [and] of linguistic colonialism", and ascribe his position to what they see as the tradition of Western monism, "where a political sphere is defined as a nation on the basis of a single language, a single religion, a single culture". These diametrically opposed views on the relation between language, geography and politics re-open a debate that has raged on and off at least since the eighteenth century, and demonstrate that the issues are far from being settled. This paper will address the relative neglect of questions concerning language and territoriality in the European context. On the one hand, the situation in countries such as Belgium and Switzerland have been attributed the status of "models", but on the other, the nature of these models is then frequently taken for granted in the literature, while at the same time little attention is paid to the maintenance of linguistic and cultural policies in other European settings. In order to generate new discussion of these issues, brief analyses of two contrasting contemporary multilingual situations (Spain and Switzerland) will be given, on the basis of which problems with existing approaches to the study of multilingualism in the European context may be highlighted.

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