Europe's Linguistic Challenge
(2007) The Language Question in Europe and Diverse Societies — ISBN: [978-1-84113-668-4], p. 217-253, published
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- Along with much of the world, Europe is converging rapidly towards adopting English as its sole lingua franca.This process is, in a sense to be clarified, inevitable. It is also, in a sense to be qualified, desirable. But it raises a number of serious questions, at least four of which can be formulated as issues of fairness. In this article, I shall consider these in turn, and indicate what I believe to be the best way of handling each of them. But before doing so, I need to spell out the nature of the fundamental mechanism that underlies the core of the dynamics of secondary language learning and multilingual interaction, not only in today’s Europe, but throughout history and throughout the world
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Van Parijs, P. (2007). Europe’s Linguistic Challenge. In Castigione, Dario (ed.), The Language Question in Europe and Diverse Societies (p. p. 217-253). Hart. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/84746