Linguistic Hegemony in the EU

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10.2991/isss-17.2017.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Linguistic hegemony, economy, EU multilingualism, culture

Abstract

The European Union has made tremendous progress in the integration process, especially in the fields of economy. However, language discrepancy in EU seems to be inconsistent with its convergent developing trend of economy and other fields since EU has taken in 27 countries differing in the aspects of culture, languages, religion and ideology. This paper analyses the strong positions of English, German and French in the EU from the perspectives of their history philosophy and theories on European integration, most importantly, the strong economic support of Britain, Germany and France. And the paper tries to propose that linguistic hegemony exists between older capitalist countries and now economically weak countries in the EU The European Union has made tremendous progress in the integration process, especially in the fields of economy. However, language discrepancy in EU seems to be inconsistent with its convergent developing trend of economy and other fields since EU has taken in 27 countries differing in the aspects of culture, languages, religion and ideology. This paper analyses the strong positions of English, German and French in the EU from the perspectives of their history philosophy and theories on European integration, most importantly, the strong economic support of Britain, Germany and France. And the paper tries to propose that linguistic hegemony exists between older capitalist countries and now economically weak countries in the EU

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AU  - Qianqian Jin
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TI  - Linguistic Hegemony in the EU
BT  - Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2017)
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