Publications

Publication details [#43488]

Määttä, Simo K. 2005. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, French Language Laws, and National Identity. Language Policy 4 (2) : 167–186.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | language policy | law | minority | multiculturalism

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

This article states that although France did not ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, French language laws and language policies increasingly take into account these languages. This recognition, however, is mostly symbolic.