A typology of arguments in defence of a coercive language policy favouring a cultural minority

Bibliographic Data

ID2146360
AuthorsJoan Vergés Gifra, Joan Vergés-Gifra (0000-0002-1901-298X, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume37
Issue2
Pages204-221
Publication date2014-01-28
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2012.705011
OpenAlexW2071976174
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited26

What kind of arguments can be used to justify a coercive language policy favouring the language of a cultural minority over the majority language of a state? To answer this question we will focus mainly on the language policy of the Catalan government and, to a lesser extent, on the language policies of the Basque Country and Quebec. Our aim is to develop a typology of arguments and try to show that each argument resorts to a different reason for coercion and has both virtues and flaws

Argument (complex analysis · Catalan · Coercion (linguistics · Focus (optics · Government (linguistics · Language policy · Linguistics · Minority language · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Typology · Anthropology · French Language Learning Methods · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub