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Language territorial regimes in multilingual ethnic territorial autonomies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nadezhda Borisova Open the ORCID record for Nadezhda Borisova [Opens in a new window]  and
Konstantin Sulimov Open the ORCID record for Konstantin Sulimov [Opens in a new window]
Nadezhda Borisova*
Affiliation:
Political Science Department, Perm State University, Perm, Russia
Konstantin Sulimov
Affiliation:
Political Science Department, Perm State University, Perm, Russia
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Ethnic territorial autonomy (ETA) is an institutional way to ensure simultaneously the integrity of the state and the rights of ethnic minorities through preferential policies in certain ethnically sensitive spheres. Language preferential policies differ greatly across multilingual ETAs and can be analyzed through the concept of “language territorial regime” (LTR). In this paper, we examine LTRs along two dimensions: (1) the scope of state regulation of language use and (2) the way language rights are perceived and used. The first considers the depth and universality of state regulation of language use – “strong” or “weak.” The second concerns whether the community's approach to language rights is symbolic or pragmatic. The combination of these two dimensions allows the categorization of LTRs into four main classes: “strong parting-regime,” “strong pooling-regime,” “weak pooling-regime,” and “weak parting-regime.” A comparison of South Tyrol, Vojvodina, and Wales allows conceptualizing LTR as a system of de jure institutional arrangements of linguistic issues and practice of self-organization and perpetuation of multilingual communities.

Keywords

language preferential policyethnic territorial autonomylanguage territorial regimemultilingualismethnic minorities
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 358 - 373
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Copyright © 2017 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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