Introduction
Debates over citizenship in modern liberal democracies have often focussed on the significance of language to both national identity and state citizenship. These debates have addressed, in particular, two key issues:
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Whether speaking the state‐mandated or national language—that is, the majority or dominant language of the state—is, or should be, a requirement of national citizenship and a demonstration of both political and social integration by its members (especially for those who speak other languages as a first language)
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Whether this requirement should be at the expense of, or in addition to the maintenance of other languages—minority, or non‐dominant languages, in effect—within the state. Or to put it another way, whether public monolingualism in the state‐mandated language should be enforced upon an often‐multilingual population or whether some degree of public as well as private multilingualism can be supported.
Needless to say, how these two issues are...
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May, S. (2008). Language Education, Pluralism and Citizenship. In: Hornberger, N.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_2
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