Focusing on paradoxes and tensions of European legal integration, this book investigates four complex and inherently contradictory processes - constitutionalization and democratization, institution-building and market-making, cross-cultural communication and European discourse, and cultural exceptionalism and normalization - to offer a new framework for understanding contemporary European integration. The volume features contributions from some of the biggest names in European legal philosophy, to include Neil MacCormick, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth, Pierre Legrand, Heikki Mattila and David Nelken. It presents a timely, interdisciplinary approach to an important and topical area and will be of interest to those concerned with the place of socio-legal processes, language and culture in the continuous advancement of the EU project.

What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes? Is it an obstacle to deliberative democracy and a hindrance to legal certainty, or a cultural and economic asset and a prerequisite for the free movement of citizens? This book examines the tensions and contradictions of European language laws and policy from a multi-disciplinary perspective. With contributions from leading researchers in EU law and legal theory, political science, sociology, sociolinguistic and cognitive linguistics, it combines mutually exclusive and competing perspectives of linguistic diversity. The work will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the areas of European law, legal theory and linguistics.

What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes? Is it an obstacle to deliberative democracy and a hindrance to legal certainty, or a cultural and economic asset and a prerequisite for the free movement of citizens? This book examines the tensions and contradictions of European language laws and policy from a multi-disciplinary perspective. With contributions from leading researchers in EU law and legal theory, political science, sociology, sociolinguistic and cognitive linguistics, it combines mutually exclusive and competing perspectives of linguistic diversity. The work will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the areas of European law, legal theory and linguistics.

Focusing on paradoxes and tensions of European legal integration, this book investigates four complex and inherently contradictory processes - constitutionalization and democratization, institution-building and market-making, cross-cultural communication and European discourse, and cultural exceptionalism and normalization - to offer a new framework for understanding contemporary European integration. The volume features contributions from some of the biggest names in European legal philosophy, to include Neil MacCormick, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth, Pierre Legrand, Heikki Mattila and David Nelken. It presents a timely, interdisciplinary approach to an important and topical area and will be of interest to those concerned with the place of socio-legal processes, language and culture in the continuous advancement of the EU project.

Kontrastive Lexikologie ist als Grundlagenwissenschaft der zweisprachigen Lexikographie fA1/4r metatheoretische Zwecke und praktische WArterbucharbeit unentbehrlich. Dabei scheint sie ein etwas vernachlAssigter Bereich der Linguistik zu sein. Der Sammelband enthAlt die BeitrAge des diesem Thema gewidmeten WerkstattgesprAchs, das vom 29.-31. Oktober 1994 in Kopenhagen unter der Leitung von Hans-Peder Kromann (+ 1995) abgehalten wurde. Die BeitrAge behandeln grundlegende Fragen des Kontrastierens (lohnen sich Wortschatzvergleiche A1/4berhaupt oder sind sie wegen der Anisomorphie der am Vergleich beteiligten Sprachen und Kulturen letztendlich unmAglich?) sowie die Methodik des Kontrastierens (zur GA1/4ltigkeit lexikologischer Untersuchungen, von der 'Optik' und 'Mikroskopie' des Sprachvergleichs). AuAerdem werden die Ergebnisse durchgefA1/4hrter kontrastiver Untersuchungen vorgelegt.