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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2019, 2019
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| Series: | Oxford studies in language and law / Oxford studies in language and law
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780190210359 |