Flemish Radicals, Jacobins, and Nazis

The Francophones of Flanders and Arguments against the State Regulation of Language during the Twentieth Century

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ID9634535
AuthorsDavid J Hensley (corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume55
Issue1-2
Pages65-90
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4107 • E-ISSN: 2292-8502
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cjh-2019-0034
OpenAlexW3082024129
LanguageEN
References cited19

Both popular and scholarly treatments of the French-speaking world tend to reify all French speakers into a homogeneous bloc with a deeply state-centered approach to language legislation. Such an analysis, informed by the examples of France and Québec, neglects the specificity of different social and political contexts. In this article, I use the example of the French speakers of Flanders, who often argued against the state regulation of language and in doing so adopted a political discourse that was radically different than that often associated with so-called French speakers, to complicate our understanding of Francophonie as a coherent whole with regard to attitudes on language policy

Flemish · French · German · Homogeneous · Legislation · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · European Cultural and National Identity · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Law · Philosophy

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