Elites, Language, and the Politics of Identity: The Norwegian Case in Comparative Perspective (Suny Series in National Identities) - Couverture souple

Bucken-Knapp, Gregg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791456560 ISBN 13 : 9780791456569

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2003

Synopsis

Uses Norway to test the claim that elites are central to the politicization of linguistic conflict.

Why and when do linguistic cleavages within a nation become politicized? Using Norway-where language has played a particularly salient role in the nation's history-as a case study, Gregg Bucken-Knapp explores these questions and challenges the notion that the politicization of language conflict is a response to language problems. He shows that political elites often view language conflict as a political opportunity, placing it on the policy agenda as an effective mobilizing tool to serve their own nonlinguistic political ends. Although language-oriented interest groups may fight to achieve desired language policies, they are generally unsuccessful when their preferences clash with the broader objectives of political elites. This book focuses on understanding just how language policies emerge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gregg Bucken-Knapp is Researcher in the Department of Political Science at Göteborg University and the coeditor (with Michael Schack) of Borders Matter: Transboundary Regions in Contemporary Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791456560
• ISBN 13: 9780791456569
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
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• Personne responsable: non disponible