Jean–Rémi Carbonneau co-authors article on one-way bilingualism in Spain

Bard College Berlin Faculty member Jean–Rémi Carbonneau and  co-author  Juan Jiménez-Salcedo of Université de Mons have published the article “One-way bilingualism: the obstacles to institutional completeness of Spain languages.”  It was published in both English and Catalan in the 76th issue of the Journal of Language and Law  that includes a monographic section on “one-way bilingualism”, edited by the same authors, with contributors from Spain, Germany and France.  

Carbonneau and Jiménez-Salcedo’s article addresses “one-way bilingualism,” a concept developed in Canadian political science to tackle the issue of unequal power relationships between speakers of different languages in multilingual states.  The two authors examine “the Spanish constitutional framework and the corresponding legislation and case law to see how they have contributed, since the 1980s, to a one-way bilingualism, with Castilian as the ‘common’ and default language of Spain.”  The authors hope that the Spanish State of the Autonomies will adapt its language policies to the needs of its different language groups in order to create a more balanced  situation and thus lay out a path other countries may follow.

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Post Date: 03-03-2022