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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Hardcover)
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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Political Theory
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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. Linguistic Justice for Europe and
for the World 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 diversity as
parity of esteem.
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