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Publication details [#60127]

Moore, Robert. 2015. From revolutionary monolingualism to reactionary multilingualism: Top-down discourses of linguistic diversity in Europe, 1794-present. Language & Communication 44 : 19–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | language politics | linguistic diversity | multilingualism | perception3

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Paradoxes as the problematic multiplicity of languages versus the cultural wealth of diversity of languages are strongly embedded in top-down European discourses on linguistic diversity remounting to the French Revolution. How many languages must an ideal European citizen speak, and when ?