POLITYKA JĘZYKOWA W PAŃSTWACH UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ
LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: The presence of multiple languages spoken within the territory of the European Union member states implies the necessity for the EU institutions to adopt a specific language policy. The purpose of this article is to explain the basis, rooted in the tradition of European philosophy, of the activities that the Council of Europe and the European Union carry out in the field of language policy. As in many other spheres of the Union's functioning, in the area of language policy, too, there have been proposals suggesting the need to abandon the previous concept based on strong philosophical foundations and implement a new one, more in line with the spirit of multiculturalism. The author presents the controversy between these classical concepts and contemporary proposals, emphasizing the importance of the philosophical foundations of future language policy from the point of view of the survival of minority languages and the situation of Europe's national and ethnic minorities.

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