Abstract
Rational politics requires the ability to predict the future and to evaluate the possible effects of political decisions. The article evaluates various attempts to establish functional arguments for maximal linguistic differentiation and demonstrates the difficulties with such arguments. If there are no objective arguments, we have to rely on feelings, which leaves us with a politics based on power or terror instead of discussion. Should for instance the emotionally based egoism of a generation decide the linguistic future of its greatgrandchildren?
| Original language | Swedish |
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| Title of host publication | Språkpolitik. Rapport från ASLA:s höstsymposium Göteborg 2000 |
| Editors | Sally Boyd |
| Publisher | ASLA, Association suédoise de linguistique appliquée |
| Pages | 231-244 |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
| Event | Språkpolitik - Göteborg Duration: 2000 Nov 9 → 2000 Nov 10 |
Publication series
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| ISSN (Print) | 1100-5629 |
Conference
| Conference | Språkpolitik |
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| Period | 2000/11/09 → 2000/11/10 |
Bibliographical note
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.The record was previously connected to the following departments: Swedish (015011001)
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Languages and Literature
Free keywords
- rational arguments.
- language death
- evaluative arguments
- Language politics