Helder De Schutter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helder De Schutter plays a role.
2022 Chapter 17. The ontology of the linguistic territoriality principle: A conceptual roadmap Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 343–360 | Chapter
The linguistic territoriality principle is popular both among theorists and practitioners of language policy. But its precise content is notoriously vague. A plethora of different meanings have been attached to it, leading to conceptual and normative confusion. This chapter proposes a novel… read more
2021 Personality and territoriality in theory and in Belgium Revisiting Linguistic Territoriality in Contemporary Europe, Burckhardt, Till, John Coakley and László Marácz (eds.), pp. 218–238 | Article
Language policy debates regularly refer to the principles of personality and territoriality. Yet the precise meaning of these principles remains unclear. In this contribution, I conceptualize these principles as poles of a continuum between official bilingualism (instantiating the personality… read more
2018 Chapter 8. Linguistic justice and English as a Lingua Franca The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance, Kraus, Peter A. and François Grin (eds.), pp. 167–200 | Chapter
Several academic circles are currently theorising the global use of English, including the following two: on the one hand, a group of linguists have argued that English, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is to be distinguished from English as a Native Language (ENL), of which ELF is not an inferior version.… read more
2007 Language policy and political philosophy: On the emerging linguistic justice debate Language Problems and Language Planning 31:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
This paper provides an overview of the emerging debates over language policy and linguistic diversity within political philosophy. It outlines the larger context of this debate and identifies its protagonists and the main issues at stake in it. In addition, it presents an interpretive scheme for… read more