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Testing for linguistic injustice: territoriality and pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Helder De Schutter
Helder De Schutter*
Affiliation:
Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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∗Email: helder.deschutter@hiw.kuleuven.be
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Abstract

This article develops a linguistic injustice test. Language policy measures passing the test conflict with the normative ideal of equal language recognition. The first part of the test checks for external restrictions - language policies that grant more recognition to one language group than to another. The second part of the test checks for internal restrictions - language policies that grant more recognition to some members of a language group than to other members of the same group. The article then applies the linguistic injustice test to two models of linguistic justice: linguistic territoriality and linguistic pluralism. It is argued that real-life cases of linguistic territoriality tend to pass the test. It is argued that instantiations of linguistic pluralism tend to fail the test.

Keywords

linguistic justicelinguistic territoriality principlelanguage policylinguistic nationalismVan Parijs
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 42 , Issue 6 , November 2014 , pp. 1034 - 1052
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Copyright © 2014 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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