Table of Contents:
  • 1. Linguistic diversity and European democracy : introduction and overview / Anne Lise Kjær and Silvia Adamo
  • 2. Neither united nor diverse? The language issue and political legitimation in the European Union / Peter A. Kraus
  • 3. Democracy, communities of communication and the European Union / Sue Wright
  • 4. The EU and languages : diversity in what unity? / Robert Phillipson
  • 5. Getting ready for a new Tower of Babel / Magali Gravier & Lita Lundquist
  • 6. Multilingual and multicultural legal reasoning : the European Court of Justice / Joxerramon Bengoetxea
  • 7. The multilingualism of the European Union law in the national courts : beyond the textbooks / Michal Bobek
  • 8. In defence of (limited) multilingualism : problems and possibilities of the multilingual interpretation of European Union law in national courts / Mattias Derlén
  • 9. Language rights : the interaction between domestic and European developments / Bruno de Witte
  • 10. The model character of Swiss language law / Dagmar Richter
  • 11. Language and languages in European ideology, political documents, and real life / J. Normann Jørgensen.