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Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology
Edited by Francesc Feliu
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 35] 2023
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Multicultural citizenship, European integration and language rights

| Università degli studi di Udine
The contribution concerns the relationship between the European integration process and the protection of minorities and language rights. It focuses on several official documents produced by the European institutions with political or legal value. In particular it refers to the Council of Europe and the European Communities / European Union. Those institutions are different and in a different way are at the same time an outcome and an instrument of the European integration. Into this framework the symbolic and substantial relevance given to minorities, linguistics rights and cultural diversity has been changing over the course of time, according to the different political and institutional situations of Europe. The different approaches to minorities, minoritized languages and language rights are like a mirror for the European integration, showing both its strenght and its difficulties as well as its contradictions.
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The theoretical framework
    • 2.1Minority and minorities
    • 2.2Minority languages, minority protection and language rights
  • 3.Minority protection and European integration
    • 3.1The first two phases: 1945–1960 and 1961–1979
    • 3.2The third phase (1979–2004): Minorities, languages and protection as a cultural and political resource for Europe
      • A. European Communities and European Union, actions and contradictions
      • B. The Council of Europe and its conventions
    • 3.3The forth phase (from 2004 to nowadays): New hopes, new contradictions
  • 4.Between the idea of multicultural citizenship and the citizenship of European Union
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 4 January 2023
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