Description du projet
Lutter contre la domination linguistique
La domination linguistique désigne le phénomène par lequel une personne, un groupe ou une institution politique contrôle la reconnaissance légale ou officielle de la langue d’une personne ou d’un groupe, ainsi que les conditions dans lesquelles ils parlent cette langue. Le projet Speaking Freely, financé par l’UE, entend promouvoir la justice linguistique en traitant la question de la domination linguistique. La méthodologie du projet proposera des mécanismes innovants pour lutter contre la domination linguistique en se basant sur le concept de l’autonomie gouvernementale, par exemple tel qu’on le trouve dans le fédéralisme, qui semble être une bonne solution, car il offre un cadre moins centralisé et tend à inclure les minorités linguistiques.
Objectif
Linguistic diversity is a common feature of contemporary societies, leading political philosophers to question how best to approach such diversity and the conflicts it sometimes engenders. One morally significant phenomenon that linguistically diverse societies are prone to is linguistic domination. This occurs whenever a person or group is subject to uncontrolled interference over their linguistic status (the legal/official recognition of a language), conditions (the social conditions in which individuals and groups perform their daily linguistic practices) and use (the daily linguistic practices of individuals and groups) by some other person, group or political institution.
Theories of linguistic justice have so far neglected the concept of linguistic domination, and one important aim of my project is to demonstrate that eliminating it is a necessary condition for linguistic justice. In addition to establishing the centrality of linguistic domination for theories of linguistic justice, my project will draw on insights from the study of federal societies to propose innovative mechanisms to address it. Federalism involves dividing political power amongst central government and sub-state units, including linguistic minorities, and as such can provide the basis for institutional remedies against domination.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
- Limerick
Irlande