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Language-related Conflicts in Multinational and Multiethnic Settings

Success and Failure of Language Regimes

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Barbora Moormann-Kimáková

    1. Auswärtiges Amt, Botschaft Budapest, Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction: The search for the optimal language regime

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    Pages 1-28

  3. The conflict potential of multilingualism

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    Pages 29-53

  4. Actors in language-related conflicts

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    Pages 55-78

  5. The dimensions of language-related conflicts

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    Pages 79-95

  6. Language regimes

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    Pages 97-125

  7. Arguing for language regimes

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    Pages 127-154

  8. Stability, legitimacy, and bargaining

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    Pages 155-173

  9. Explaining success and failure of language regimes

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    Pages 175-249

  10. Conclusion and outlook

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    Pages 251-256

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 257-278
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About this book

In this book, Barbora Moormann-Kimáková analyses the possibility of finding an optimal language regime in multinational and multiethnic countries – either by defining the contents of an optimal language regime, or with the help of a criterion enabling to evaluate whether a language regime is optimal or not. The process of the selection or change of a language regime often becomes a matter of a language-related conflict. These conflicts are mostly accompanied by other political or social conflicts, as for example in Ukraine or former Yugoslavia, which render solutions – and their evaluation – difficult. The author claims that language regimes can be evaluated based on the increase or lack of their legitimacy in the eyes of the relevant actors. This is demonstrated in four language regime studies on the European Union, Soviet Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and South Africa.

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  • Auswärtiges Amt, Botschaft Budapest, Berlin, Germany

    Barbora Moormann-Kimáková

About the author

Barbora Moormann-Kimáková received her doctorate in political science from the Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

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