Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy

Kjær, Anne Lise; Adamo, Silvia

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“…Linguistic justice accounts have focused, for example, on fair distributions of benefits and burdens in the acquisition and use of a predominant language (De Schutter 2007; Pool 1991; Van Parijs 2011a, Chaps. 2–3), and on related language policy issues (Gazzola, Templin, and Wickström, 2018; Kjaer and Adamo 2011). Researchers have explored special rights for minority‐language groups (Patten 2009), linguistic justice in the migration context (Bonotti, Carlsson, and Rowe 2022), and biases against speakers of minority languages and those with certain accents (Baker‐Bell 2020; Peled and Bonotti 2019), alongside treatments of democratic language barriers (see Alcalde 2018).…”

Section: Linguistic Justice and Linguistic Diversitymentioning

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Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation

Cabrera

2022

American J Political Sci

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This article works to show that machine translation and interpretation technologies can play significant roles in addressing language barriers in democratic polities, including beyond the state. Numerous shared-language or interpretation models have been proposed to address such barriers, while possible machine models have largely been dismissed in the literature. Yet, online translation is now ubiquitous globally, and governments and international organizations increasingly use machine translation and some interpretation applications. Such technologies, it is shown, can greatly expand information uptake and participation by ordinary citizens in linguistically diverse polities. They also can avoid key fairness and cost concerns faced by other models, or help address them in hybrid configurations, especially in online settings. While speech-to-speech applications may never achieve the seamless vernacular "Babel fish" interpretations implied as necessary for some deliberative modes, machine models can be seen as valuable for addressing language barriers within a range of approaches to democracy.

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Section: Linguistic Justice and Linguistic Diversitymentioning

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Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation

Cabrera

2022

American J Political Sci

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Quo Vadis English? The Post-Brexit Position of English as a Working Language of the EU

Kużelewska

2020

Int J Semiot Law

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“Brexit” as a word entered the European language’s scene eight years ago as a term describing what seemed as a surrealistic scenario for the British. Since then, it has become the ‘political word of 2016,’ paved its way to the Oxford English Dictionary, and globally into the computer dictionaries which no longer underline it in red as an unknown term. ‘Brexit,’ as a political campaign motto, has also transformed into a realistic political strategy and eventually into a complicated, exhausting, dividing, yet finalized process. By the time it was accomplished, everyone in Europe was tired of it, but tiredness did not change the fact that Brexit was an historical period of turmoil of an unprecedented nature. Brexit occurred on a multitude of dimensions, including the EU language policy dimension. For the past 20 years, English has been by far the most commonly used language in the Union, not only as one of the 24 official languages of the Member States, but as a working language of all the institutions, all negotiations, and all political debates. This contribution aims to analyse the legal status and the practical dimension of the European Union working languages and to explore the position of the English language among them—both presently and with possible scenarios in the future Union, without the United Kingdom as the biggest English-speaking Member State. The initial assumption states that the geopolitical weight of the English language will diminish even if the Irish and Maltese will hold the language’s position as an official language of the Union. In mathematical terms, there will be more native speakers in Hungarian or Slovak than in English. In political terms, Germany and France will have a chance to improve their influences by advocating for more efficient use of their languages. ‘Quo vadis English?’ seems a timely question to ask.

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The grammar: the rules of constitutional reasoning

Jakab

2016

European Constitutional Language

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Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy

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Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation

Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation

Quo Vadis English? The Post-Brexit Position of English as a Working Language of the EU

The grammar: the rules of constitutional reasoning

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