Linguistic Justice Requires an Artificial Language: a Comment on van Parijs
In advocating the use of a global auxiliary language, Van Parijs forms part of a tradition that stretches back to the seventeenth century. However, he differs from this tradition in promoting the use of English rather than an artificial language of some sort. This paper examines the theoretical situ...
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doaj-88e71b0e29684734a5ee84f219eba7482021-09-06T19:40:18ZengSciendoActa Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies2068-75832016-10-0191778110.1515/auseur-2016-0011auseur-2016-0011Linguistic Justice Requires an Artificial Language: a Comment on van ParijsMaat Jaap0Department of Philosophy, University of AmsterdamIn advocating the use of a global auxiliary language, Van Parijs forms part of a tradition that stretches back to the seventeenth century. However, he differs from this tradition in promoting the use of English rather than an artificial language of some sort. This paper examines the theoretical situation that van Parijs proposes as the most fair, in which English functions worldwide as the preferred auxiliary language and in which certain measures have been taken to counterbalance injustices of three types. I draw attention to injustices of each of these types done to speakers of English in that situation. This leads to the conclusion that proposals to use an artificial language as a global lingua franca that were made in the seventeenth and later centuries have a stronger case than van Parijs has argued.https://doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2016-0011artificial languagesseventeenth-century language plannersesperantoinjustice to anglophonesmultilingualism |
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Linguistic Justice Requires an Artificial Language: a Comment on van Parijs |
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Linguistic Justice Requires an Artificial Language: a Comment on van Parijs |
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Linguistic Justice Requires an Artificial Language: a Comment on van Parijs |
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In advocating the use of a global auxiliary language, Van Parijs forms part of a tradition that stretches back to the seventeenth century. However, he differs from this tradition in promoting the use of English rather than an artificial language of some sort. This paper examines the theoretical situation that van Parijs proposes as the most fair, in which English functions worldwide as the preferred auxiliary language and in which certain measures have been taken to counterbalance injustices of three types. I draw attention to injustices of each of these types done to speakers of English in that situation. This leads to the conclusion that proposals to use an artificial language as a global lingua franca that were made in the seventeenth and later centuries have a stronger case than van Parijs has argued. |
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artificial languages seventeenth-century language planners esperanto injustice to anglophones multilingualism |
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