Living With Languages : The Contemporary Swiss Model
Charnley, Joy (EDT)
ISBN 10: 303910019X ISBN 13: 9783039100194
Published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2003
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In 2002, Expo. 02 – the Swiss National Exhibition – celebrated the modern identity of the Swiss Confederation and the electorate approved a historic change in relations with other countries by voting to join the United Nations. Yet, despite bilateral agreements regulating areas of common interest between Switzerland and the European Union, there are still strong fears that Swiss identity could be jeopardised by full membership, and that, within a wider framework, her quadrilingual composition could not be sustained.
The experience which the Swiss have accumulated in dealing pragmatically and largely peacefully with different languages is detailed in the six essays of this volume. The special contemporary characteristics of German, French and Italian within Switzerland, the pressures on Romansh, the role played by Switzerland in integrating gender-neutral language into standard usage and the dominance of English as a means of communication between different language groups are amongst the topics discussed.
About the Author: The Editors: Joy Charnley (French) and Malcolm Pender (German) teach in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (GB). In 1996 they set up the Centre for Swiss Cultural Studies at the University of Strathclyde.
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Title: Living With Languages : The Contemporary ...
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New