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Language and a Continent in Flux
Twenty-First Century Tensions of Inclusion and Exclusion
in Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Abstract
This article introduces the present forum edition on linguistic identities in twenty-first-century Europe. We consider how discourses of inclusion and exclusion, embedded in discourses of the nation, continue to be relevant in understanding and interpreting the social, cultural and political status of (minority) languages and their speakers. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise this forum, we relay how language debates provide a lens through which wider systems of prestige and hierarchy may be focused. Such debates can, at one and the same time, both alter and reflect the meanings and interpretations of Europe itself.
Contributor Notes
Philip McDermott, School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University. E-mail: p.mcdermott@ulster.ac.uk
Sarah McMonagle, Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg. E-mail: Sarah.McMonagle@uni-hamburg.de
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
