Social media and the institutional illusions of <scp>EU</scp> communication

Koskinen, Kaisa

doi:10.1111/ijal.12018

Cited by 33 publications

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“…English dominates. 93 An overhaul of the Commission's strategy in this field would thus be beneficial.…”

Section: Recommendation No 2: Implementing Political Equality By Designmentioning

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Levelling the EU participatory playing field: A legal and policy analysis of the Commission's public consultations in light of the principle of political equality

Alemanno¹

2020

European Law Journal

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The EU Commission has a long tradition of consulting interested parties when formulating its policies. While the rationale, format and legal basis relied upon by the Commission when holding public consultations have changed over time, its systematic inability to make those consultations equally accessible to all affected parties has remained constant. This article discusses the extent to which such a consultation practice conflicts with the principle of political equality, as enshrined in Article 9 TEU. Given the Commission's unrestrained discretion regarding who, how and when to consult and the absence of corresponding participatory rights, it argues that the EU can no longer presume that all stakeholders-especially citizens and civil society groups-enjoy equal access to EU institutions. Rather, under a proposed substantive reading of the principle of political equality, it contends that EU institutions are procedurally required to ensure that everyone will effectively be given equal opportunities of access to the policy process. Only a series of structural, power-shifting reforms-some of which are proposed in this article-may enable participation to become an autonomous form of legitimation of the Union.

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“…English dominates. 93 An overhaul of the Commission's strategy in this field would thus be beneficial.…”

Section: Recommendation No 2: Implementing Political Equality By Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Levelling the EU participatory playing field: A legal and policy analysis of the Commission's public consultations in light of the principle of political equality

Alemanno¹

2020

European Law Journal

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“…However, research (e.g. Ammon, 2006Ammon, , 2012Author 2006;2015;Cogo & Jenkins, 2010;Gazzola, 2006Gazzola, , 2016Koskinen, 2013;Lenaerts, 2001;Piron, 1980;Quell, 1997;van Els, 2005;Wright, 2009) and internal inspections (e.g. JIU/REP/2011/4, see below) within these organisations have long shown that reductions in multilingual provision and use are commonplace, and multilingual language policies have been difficult to implement.…”

Section: Lpp and Supra-national/international Organisationsmentioning

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Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members: a corpus linguistic investigation of the United Nations’ General Debates (1970–2016)

McEntee-Atalianis

Vessey

2020

Lang Policy

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Supranational and international organisations have long experienced difficulties in implementing multilingual policies, and this is, in part, due to a lack of activism on language matters by their membership (Author, forthcoming; Kruse & Ammon, 2018). The aim of this paper is not only to highlight the importance of investigating language ideology within the field of organisational language policy, but also to scrutinise the language ideologies particular to an influential body of institutional members. Using the United Nations as a site of exploration, and the UN General Debates Corpus (Mikhaylov, Baturo and Dasandi, 2017) as a dataset, this paper traces if and how issues of language have preoccupied the deliberations and work of UN member states over the course of 46 years, and if these discussions align with organisational policy. Using corpus linguistics, the paper maps the ideological landscape and language policy discourses across time, identifying a paucity of discussion over almost five decades. The paper argues that attention to the absence of references to language problems/language policy in the organisation is just as important as an exploration of language problems themselves. If organisations wish to make changes to language policies, and/or prioritise policy implementation, they would do well to attend more closely to the language ideologies of their membership and/or to reasons for their apparent inattention to language issues.

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“…Blommaert 2013). Monikielistä kielimaisemaa on tutkittu myös käännöstieteen näkökulmasta (Koskinen 2013a(Koskinen , 2013b. Tutkimuksessani sivuan vähemmistökielten tutkimusta ja sosiolingvistiikkaa, ja lisäksi tarkastelen aineistoa käännöstieteen ja verkkokielen tutkimuksen näkökulmasta hyödyntäen Reh'n (2004) monikielistämisstrategioita.…”

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Moshnikov

2016

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Social media and the institutional illusions of EU communication

Cited by 33 publications

References 12 publications

Levelling the EU participatory playing field: A legal and policy analysis of the Commission's public consultations in light of the principle of political equality

Levelling the EU participatory playing field: A legal and policy analysis of the Commission's public consultations in light of the principle of political equality

Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members: a corpus linguistic investigation of the United Nations’ General Debates (1970–2016)

Karjalankieliset verkkosivut virtuaalisena kielimaisemana

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