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Uniform Title Politique de Babel. English
Title Language, nation, and state : identity politics in a multilingual age / edited by Tony Judt and Denis Lacorne
Edition First edition
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Description viii, 249 pages ; 22 cm
Series Europe in transition
Europe in transition (New York, N.Y.)
Contents The politics of language / Tony Judt and Denis Lacorne -- Pt. 1. The limits of national monolingualism -- Ch. 1. Difference rights and language in France / Alain Fenet -- Ch. 2. Langue d'oc, French and the construction of a state in France / Philippe Martel -- Ch. 3. Bilingualism and ethnic change in California / David Lopez -- Pt. 2. The fragility of plurilingual nations -- Ch. 4. Nationalism versus bilingualism / Astrid von Busekist -- Ch. 5. Struggling against territory : language policy in Canada / Kenneth McRoberts -- Ch. 6. Beyond multiculturalism : identity, intercultural communication, and political culture - the case of Switzerland / Uli Windisch -- Pt. 3. Nation-making and linguistic revivals -- Ch. 7. Hebrew, the language of national daily life / Alain Dieckhoff -- Ch. 8. Linguistic acculturations and reconstructions in the ULB group (Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus) / Daniel Beauvois -- Ch. 9. Unity and plurality in the Serbo-Croatian linguistic sphere / Paul Garde
Ch. 10. Languages in the wired world / Geoffrey Nunberg
Notes Papers presented at a conference held in Paris in Sept. 1998, co-sponsored by the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales and the Remarque Institute
"The present edition follows the French version, except for the Introduction which has been re-cast for an English readership."--Pref
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the French
Subject Language and languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
Multilingualism -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Lacorne, Denis.
Judt, Tony.
Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales.
Remarque Institute (New York University)
LC no. 2003064010
ISBN 1403963932