Revisiting Linguistic Territoriality in Contemporary Europe
Edited by Till Burckhardt, John Coakley and László Marácz
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 45:2 (2021) v, 140 pp.
Till Burckhardt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Till Burckhardt plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language policy | Language teaching | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Translation Studies
Articles
2021 Linguistic territoriality in Switzerland: Exploring the roots of a constitutional principle Revisiting Linguistic Territoriality in Contemporary Europe, Burckhardt, Till, John Coakley and László Marácz (eds.), pp. 187–217 | Article
This article argues that the linguistic territoriality principle cannot be considered as a general guideline for the design of language policy but rather as a tool to find the right balance between linguistic freedom and linguistic peace under given circumstances. The article traces the origin… read more
2021 Linguistic territoriality under stress: European perspectives Revisiting Linguistic Territoriality in Contemporary Europe, Burckhardt, Till, John Coakley and László Marácz (eds.), pp. 121–141 | Article
This article revisits a well-known dichotomy (the ‘territorial’ and ‘personal’ principles) and develops a four-element classification of state approaches (from the most generous to the most menacing, from the perspective of speakers of minority languages). The article examines the implications… read more