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State Traditions and Language Regimes (Paperback)
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State Traditions and Language Regimes (Paperback)
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Language policies are political. They have political consequences
as well as political origins. In State Traditions and Language
Regimes, scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America shift focus
from the consequences of language policies to how and why states
make language policy choices. This shift, theorized through the
concept of "language regime," inserts an urgently needed political
science perspective into the current dialogue between
sociolinguists, who research the societal effects of language
policies, and political theorists of language rights, who analyze
the normative implications of policies. New analytical tools drawn
from comparative politics are showcased to analyze paths taken by
different states in establishing language regimes, at times
disrupted and redirected at critical junctures. Contributions to
the volume include analyses of Canada's increasingly court-driven
language policies, the United States' bifurcated language regime in
the aftermath of 9/11, Ireland's conflicted protection of the Irish
language, France's linguistic Jacobin tradition disrupted by
Europeanization, the role of political parties and coalitions in
language regime stability and change in Taiwan and Southeast Asia,
Poland's war-torn history informing policy toward regional
languages, and the role of English in international peace-building.
While other books look at the political and societal effects of
language policy, none seeks to employ a historical institutionalism
approach which sets language policy choice in the context of power
relations embedded in state traditions. State Traditions and
Language Regimes offers a comparative politics perspective, one
that enriches interdisciplinary debate on language policy.
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