The Conception of Diversity in the EU
The Conception of Diversity in the EU

Summary/Abstract: The growing diversity of the European Union is seen as one of its core political and cultural characteristics. As a result, the idea of a common EU identity is based on the understanding of how different cultures, traditions and languages of Europe enrich its population and strengthen the Union. “United in Diversity” is the official motto of the EU. Despite the fact, that multilingualism is seen as an important component of the EU Language Policy, English is still (and likely will continue to be) very popular among the non-native speakers of the European Union. It is used as lingua franca that aids intercultural communication, mobility and various educational programs like Erasmus+.Our analysis of the concept DIVERSITY and its verbalizers in the EU English-language academic and official discourse demonstrated that the most frequent collocates with “diversity” are formed with help of the attributes “cultural”, “linguistic” and “gender”. The results show the EU priority areas of the implementation of its “United in Diversity” policy.

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