Wodak, Ruth and Wright, S. (2006) The European Union in Cyberspace. Multilingual Democratic Participation in a virtual public sphere? Journal of Language and Politics, 5 (2). pp. 251-275. ISSN 1569-9862
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This article analyses the European Union's Futurum discussion forum. The EU hoped that Futurum would help close the acknowledged gap between institutions and citizens by facilitating a virtual, multilingual, transnational public sphere. Futurum was both an interesting example of how the EU's language policies shape the structure of deliberative experiments and of a public debate about their relative value. We combine various quantitative measures of the discussions with a critical discourse analysis of a thread which focused on language policies. We found that although the debates were predominantly in English, where a thread started in a language other than English, linguistic diversity was more prominent. The discourse analysis showed that multilingual interaction was fostered, and that the debate about language policies is politically and ideologically charged.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Language and Politics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | argumentaion analysis ; discourse analysis ; electronic democracy ; European Union ; language policies ; multilingualism ; multimodality ; public sphere |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language |
| ID Code: | 1686 |
| Deposited By: | Prof Ruth Wodak |
| Deposited On: | 18 Feb 2008 16:41 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2013 14:49 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/1686 |
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