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From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance

2012
In January 2011, US pastor Terry Jones was barred from entering Britain. He had called for an International Burn a Koran Day on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (BBC, 2011a, 20 January 2011). In June 2011, Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah was detained under an exclusion order, barring him from visiting the UK amidst accusations of ...
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Linguistic Challenges of Interoperable Registers in the Context of E-Government Services

Pázmány Law Review, 2023
E-administration requires, among others, interoperability between registers kept by authorities. Databases hold data clustered around concepts stemming from the different legal acts governing the procedures of the various authorities. Owing to the conceptual and terminological incoherence pervasive throughout legal acts, the intended interoperability ...
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E-Governance on the Web: Linguistic and Discursive Strategies

2015
The chapter delves into the ongoing debate on e-governance, concentrating on the relationship between language use and other dimensions of social life such as identity and belonging as they are discursively encoded online. It suggests that new media communication may work as a tool of social cohesion and inclusion. By looking at linguistic evidence, it
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The colonial linguistics of governance in Sudan: the Rejaf Language Conference, 1928

Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2016
This paper explores the discursive history of ‘language-making’ in the context of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, focusing on a significant colonial moment of standardisation: The Rejaf Language Conference (RLC) of 1928. Through inspecting the report of the proceedings of the RLC, the paper contends that this institutional event contributed to the ...
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Words Matter for Government Accountability? The Linguistic Tone of Government Reports and Audit Results

The American Review of Public Administration
As a critical tool for accountability mechanisms, audits are expected to provide key stakeholders with impartial and unbiased information about government operations. However, meeting this expectation may not be readily achievable since auditors are not entirely free from various bias sources.
Youngsung Kim, Sungho Park
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The Impact of the Linguistic Cleavage on the “Governing” Parties of Belgium and Canada

Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1978
L'impact du clivage linguistique sur les partis au pouvoir en Belgique et au CanadaCet article explore les rapports entre les Flamands et les Francophones à l'intérieur du Parti social Chrétien beige et ceux entre les Canadiens français et les Canadiens anglais dans le Parti libéral du Canada.
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The Politics of Multilingualism

2018
This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the dynamics of transnationalism, globalisation, and Europeanisation on the ...
Kraus, Peter A., Grin, François
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Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?

2012
UNESCO’s 1950 Freedom and Culture contrasts totalitarian and democratic systems: ‘One is faith in an official truth and in the power of government to impose it. The other is faith in the continuing inventiveness of men’ (Bryson, 1950, p. 144). The 2011 Arab Awakening saw people re-asserting faith in themselves, coming together collectively, and shaking
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The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Legal Governance of Politics

2012
The language of rights is central to how language problems are approached today. Policy documents and academic literature put language rights at the heart of their analysis. Language rights-based policies are displacing traditional language planning, while sociolinguistic studies have become studies of language rights.
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