Shallow equality and symbolic jurisprudence in multilingual legal orders

This text offers a critical perspective to the proliferation of official multilingualism in the contemporary world. Through diachronic and synchronic comparisons, it shows that official multilingualism has become a norm in the political management of linguistic diversity, but actual practices vary a...

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Other Authors: Leung, Janny H. C., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2019.
Series:Oxford studies in language and law.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009842837206719
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Summary:This text offers a critical perspective to the proliferation of official multilingualism in the contemporary world. Through diachronic and synchronic comparisons, it shows that official multilingualism has become a norm in the political management of linguistic diversity, but actual practices vary according to sociohistorical contexts and current power dynamics.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2019.
Physical Description:1 online resource (321 pages)
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190930608
9780190210359
9780190210342