Download e-book for iPad: Language, Democracy, and Devolution in Catalonia (Current by Sue Wright

By Sue Wright

ISBN-10: 058517167X

ISBN-13: 9780585171678

ISBN-10: 1853594458

ISBN-13: 9781853594458

The difficulty of human rights turns into very complicated while utilized to language. "Individual" rights have little which means during this area. humans don't ask for the fitting to talk to themselves; they ask for the proper to exploit their language inside of their staff. the place populations are heterogenous such rights are tough to make sure. Language could be a robust technique of inclusion and exclusion, and this can be fairly real in democratic societies the place debate is crucial to the method. This e-book seems at those primary questions within the context of Catalonia.

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It would, to be sure, be discriminatory to limit access to certain jobs on the basis of a person's home or family languagewhich is what the Universal Declaration renders illegal. 6 But it is to misunderstand and misquote the Universal Declaration to argue that Catalan employers do not have the right to ask that their employees have competence in Catalan. It seems to me (and to the international courts, incidentally) perfectly reasonable to expect an appropriate command of one or more official languages by people applying for many jobs in Catalonia, especially if these jobs entail contact with people who speak one or other language.

A similar procedure is followed to elect the 135 members of the Catalan Parliament. This paper is not the place to get involved into considerations of the pros and cons of different systems of parliamentary representation. Let us return to the language issue. It should now be clear that the Catalans as an ethnolinguistic group have no specific quota in the Spanish parliament. 7 It is the electorate of the territory, as a whole, who are called to decide on its representatives. So let us ask ourselves: what happens when they are?

It would, to be sure, be discriminatory to limit access to certain jobs on the basis of a person's home or family languagewhich is what the Universal Declaration renders illegal. 6 But it is to misunderstand and misquote the Universal Declaration to argue that Catalan employers do not have the right to ask that their employees have competence in Catalan. It seems to me (and to the international courts, incidentally) perfectly reasonable to expect an appropriate command of one or more official languages by people applying for many jobs in Catalonia, especially if these jobs entail contact with people who speak one or other language.

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