Yael Peled

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yael Peled plays a role.

With the emergence of the notion of Standard Quebec French, debates about linguistic usage in Quebec are today largely shaped by two competing normative models: an exonorm defined for all intents and purposes in France and an endonorm reflecting socially acceptable usage as determined by… read more
Peled, Yael 2015 Parity in the plural: Language and complex equalityLinguistic Equality, Tonkin, Humphrey (ed.), pp. 282–297 | Article
The politics of language raises a number of concerns pertaining to the question of equality, particularly in the context of language policy formulation, analysis and evaluation. At the same time, however, both ‘equality’ and ‘language’ are relatively vague notions, which may be interpreted in… read more
Peled, Yael 2012 Marching forward into the past: Monolingual multilingualism in contemporary political theoryStandard Languages and Multilingualism in European History, Hüning, Matthias, Ulrike Vogl and Olivier Moliner (eds.), pp. 71–96 | Article
Our contemporary idea of ‘monolingual multilingualism’ is rooted not only in the policy practices of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, but also in its intellectual history. The intellectual origins of this conception could be identified in the political writings of three philosophers who… read more
It is only in recent years, after a surprising long period of neglect, that political theorists began to engage with the evident normative dimension of policymaking on language. Within the body of literature that has emerged in this process, the conceptual framework of language rights maintains a… read more