Approaches to fair linguistic communication

Abstract

The paper focuses on European language policy. A polity of 27 states with 23 official languages is an enormous challenge. The public discourse of EU politicians stresses the need to maintain all the languages of the EU, for they are an essential component of European identity. The EU's linguistic reality looks different. It is characterised by the ever greater predominance of just one language, English. Recent publications have shown that the hegemony of English has led to severe disadvantages for non-anglophones in general and in academia in particular. There is a growing awareness of the dangers emanating from the dominance of one language over all other languages. Several options for language policy have been presented to find fair and democratic approaches to international communication. Their scope includes (1) multilingualism/plurilingualism, (2) restriction to receptive skills (e.g. European Intercomprehension), (3) reduced variants of English, e.g. the model 'English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)', (4)...

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