Does Global English Support the Development of Social Europe?

• Authors: László Marácz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The relevance of languages and multilingual communication for social policy and solidarity in the context of the nation-state has generally been recognized. However, in the context of Europeanization, this factor has been underestimated and neglected in scientific research. This paper argues that languages and multilingual communication are relevant for the design of Social Europe. In order to support this hypothesis, the paper relies on an analytical tool, the so-called floral figuration model proposed by De Swaan (1988). This model allows us to isolate social and linguistic actors and track down complex patterns of linguistic and communicative exclusion in Europe’s system of multilevel governance. These patterns also refer to international or global English or its technically adapted Brussels variety, ‘Euro-English’. From this, also follows that these patterns of linguistic and communicative exclusion must be rendered into inclusive ones before a European social policy can be realized.

Keywords

EN

European languages and multilingual communication; Social Europe; floral figuration model; Eurostars; national cosmopolitans

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-38

Dates

published

2016-10-01

online

2016-10-26

Contributors

author

László Marácz

• Institute for European Studies, University of Amsterdam

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/auseur-2016-0005