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Multilingualism in Europe: An Effective French Identity Strategy?

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Oakes, Leigh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002

Discusses transformation of the French language policy in Europe that in which the overt promotion of French as the European lingua franca was replaced with new policy promoting multilingualism. Examines the new policy in terms of its intentions and it effectiveness as an identity strategy. Suggests that not only does the policy exclude regional…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Role, Multilingualism

Multilingualism in Europe and the US: A Communications Challenge for Transatlantic Relations and Global Business. Conclusions from an International Round Table Seminar Conducted by the European Institute (Washington, D.C., November 1992).

European Inst., Washington, DC. – 1993

A November 1992 conference on multilingualism and the role of language in European-American communications and trade is summarized in a series of brief essays. After a foreword from the president of the Commission of the European Communities, these articles are presented: an introduction (Jacqueline Grapin); "Towards Transatlantic Linguistic…

Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, International Relations