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Språkpolitikens väsen och vanskligheter

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Author

Editor

  • Sally Boyd

Summary, in English

Rational politics requires the ability to predict the future and to evaluate the possible effects of political decisions. The article evaluates various attempts to establish functional arguments for maximal linguistic differentiation and demonstrates the difficulties with such arguments. If there are no objective arguments, we have to rely on feelings, which leaves us with a politics based on power or terror instead of discussion. Should for instance the emotionally based egoism of a generation decide the linguistic future of its greatgrandchildren?

Department/s

Publishing year

2002

Language

Swedish

Pages

231-244

Publication/Series

Språkpolitik. Rapport från ASLA:s höstsymposium Göteborg 2000

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

ASLA, Association suédoise de linguistique appliquée

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • rational arguments.
  • language death
  • evaluative arguments
  • Language politics

Conference name

Språkpolitik

Conference date

2000-11-09 - 2000-11-10

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1100-5629