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Discourses about Enlarged and Multilingual Europe: Perspectives from German and Polish National Public Spheres

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Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe

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This chapter1 explores how the European Union’s numerous recent policies on multilingualism have been received in the German and Polish national public spheres and whether, via the carriers of different language ideologies (see below), those public spheres arrived at a view that the EU’s policies have improved the image of its institutions as linguistically diverse and multilingual. It is hypothesized that the perception of EU institutions as ‘multilingual’ and therefore inclusive is increasingly desirable if the citizens of the EU (including those in the post-transformation countries of Central and Eastern Europe) are to identify with the EU’s institutions as their representatives and are to treat them as a reflection of the growing multiplicity and diversity of a broader European space. By the same token, it is argued that creating a multilingual image of the EU would be crucial in eradicating its widely disputed ‘democratic deficit’ in both ‘old’ and ‘new’ EU member states.

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  1. Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK

    Michat Krzyżanowski (Senior Research Fellow, Assistant Professor)

  2. School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

    Michat Krzyżanowski (Senior Research Fellow, Assistant Professor)

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  1. University of Southampton, UK

    Jenny Carl (postdoctoral researcher) & Patrick Stevenson (Professor of German and Linguistic Studies) (postdoctoral researcher) &  (Professor of German and Linguistic Studies)

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Krzyżanowski, M. (2009). Discourses about Enlarged and Multilingual Europe: Perspectives from German and Polish National Public Spheres. In: Carl, J., Stevenson, P. (eds) Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230241664_2

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