Community and Communication: The Role of Language in Nation State Building and European Integration
Author: Sue Wright
- Format:
- Paperback
- Related Formats:
- Hardback, Ebook(PDF)
- ISBN:
- 9781853594847
- Published:
- 31st Mar 2000
- Publisher:
- Multilingual Matters
- Number of pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 210mm x 148mm
- Availability:
- Available
Price: £24.95
Price: $24.95
Price: €29.95
This book considers the issue of language in the European Union. Without a community of communication, the EU must remain a trading association run in an autocratic way by bilingual patrician technocrats; with a community of communication, the European Union could develop democratic structures and legitimacy and give meaning to its policies of free movement. How to achieve that community of communication is the biggest challenge facing Europe today.
Sue Wright is a lecturer in the School of Language and European Studies at Aston University. Her research interests are multilingualism and language policy in Europe.
Postgraduate, Research / Professional