: Alexandre Duchêne
: Ideologies across Nations The Construction of Linguistic Minorities at the United Nations
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110208313
: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 207.90
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 293
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This book presents an innovative interpretation of the ideological and discursive processes that have emerged out of issues concerning the regulation of minorities within the United Nations. It reveals the importance of the reproduction of the interests of nation-states within an international organization and the reproduction of power through the legal management and control of linguistic minorities.

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Frontmatter1
Contents7
Introduction13
Chapter 1. The protection of linguistic minorities as a field of inquiry17
Chapter 2. Discursive spaces and the protection of minorities: historical, institutional and ideological conditions of knowledge production55
Chapter 3. Production of discourse and institutional constraints: the search for objectivity100
Chapter 4. State divergences and the principle of universality: a protection through absence132
Chapter 5. Ambivalence, particularism and the reproduction of state interests: a limited protection171
Chapter 6. Institutional continuity, the management of paradoxes and state consensus: a controlled protection217
Chapter 7. Conclusion270
Backmatter277