Linguistic defense and offense
- When I first wrote about linguistic self-defense (discussed in Liav Orgad’s book pp. 198-200) I had a conception of languages in danger, The most visible potential victim were the French in Quebec. But with the help of Charles de Gaulle, the Quebecois have held on well to their culture (majority at home, minority at large, but supported by a large nation in Europe). One form of linguistic self-defense I proposed at the time was insisting on speaking your language in commercial transactions. For the sake of profit, store keepers would play along. Also, public advertising is a critical mode of making a language seem like the background state of normalcy. The key case in Quebec, as I recall, was called Chaussures Brown Shoes. That was the way they wanted their sign to read. The Anglophones objected and lost.
| Author: | George P. Fletcher |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-549695 |
| Parent Title (German): | Verfassungsblog |
| Publisher: | Verfassungsblog.de |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2016 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2016/02/19 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/07/01 |
| Tag: | Cultural Rights; Liberal Theory; Majority; Multicultural |
| Issue: | 2016/2/19 |
| Page Number: | 3 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 3 |
| Note: | LICENSED UNDER CC BY NC ND |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 467359148 |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |
