Italian in the European Community: An educational perspective on the national language and new language minorities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Praefatio v
3. Contents ix
4. European integration and the idea of the national language 1
5. Factors of constraints and freedom in setting a language policy for the European Community: A sociolinguistic approach 45
6. Language conflicts in multilingual Europe - prospects for 1993 59
7. Linguistic minorities and language conflict in Europe: Learning from the Swiss experience 75
8. Language politics and the new European identity 103
9. Society, civilization, mentality: Prolegomena to a language policy for Europe 121
10. Multilingualism in European Community meetings - a pragmatic approach 139
11. Legal aspects of a language policy for the European Communities: Language risks, equal opportunities, and legislating a language 147
12. The impact of European Community rules on linguistic policies of the Member States 163
13. Reflections about minority languages in the European Community 179
14. Linguistic “integration” and “identity” - the situation of migrant workers in the EC as a challenge and opportunity 195
15. Educational language planning in England and Wales: Multicultural rhetoric and assimilationist assumptions 215
16. The status of German and other languages in the European Community 241
17. National and international dimensions of language policy when the minority language is a national language: the case of Irish in Ireland 255
18. Linguistic nationalism and European unity: The case of Greece 279
19. Italian in the European Community: An educational perspective on the national language and new language minorities 291
20. Contributing authors 301
21. Index of subjects 303
22. Index of names 309