Politics without the Vernacular

Liberal Culturalism and the Language Policy of the European Union

Bibliographic Data

ID7973472
AuthorsMatteo Bonotti (0000-0001-8241-4896)
Year2013
Volume33
Issue3
Pages196-206
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/1467-9256.12006
OpenAlexW1539794145
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Will Kymlicka's liberal culturalism presents a tension between the idea that linguistic diversity in multilingual polities should be protected and the claim that democratic debate across linguistic boundaries is unfeasible. In this article, I resolve that tension by arguing that trans-lingual democratic deliberation in multilingual polities is necessary to legitimise those measures aimed at the protection of linguistic diversity. I conclude that my account provides a coherent normative response to the challenges faced by the European Union (EU) in the field of language policy and that an EU-wide deliberative forum is not as unfeasible as Kymlicka suggests

Culturalism · Deliberation · Democracy · Economics · European union · Language policy · Liberal democracy · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vernacular · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Minority Rights and Languages · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance

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