Query: Linguistic legislation of the European Union

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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:42:46 +0200 (EET)
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Subject: Query: Linguistic legislation of the European Union

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Original sender: Zsuzsi Schnell <zsuzsischnell@hotmail.com>

Quiery: Linguistic legislation of the European Union


To whom it may concern,

I am writing my thesis on the linguistic legislation of the European
Union, however, I am not focusin on the EU's concern with minority
languages in its member states, but on the problem of official
languages and non-official (thus, on the supranational level
minority-) languages in the legislation. Depending on the political
significance of a member state, its language acquires more
significance, and thus is nominated official. However, in this sense,
the official language of smaller countries with less political power
becomes non-official, thus a minority language.

I would like to investigate the problem of democratic deficit in the
linguistic sense.

Could you help me acquire some information on this topic, and could I
ask for the lectures given on the conference, relating to this issue?

Thank you in advance,

Susanna Schnell

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