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Acknowledgments; Table of contents; Table of figures; 1 Introduction: The search for the optimal language regime; 1.1 Language-related conflicts; 1.2 Optimum; 1.3 Literature review; 1.4 Outline and preliminary remarks; 2 The conflict potential of multilingualism; 2.1 The communicative function of language; 2.2 The symbolic function of language; 2.3 Language, interests and power; 2.4 Conclusions; 3 Actors in language-related conflicts; 3.1 Differentiating language groups; 3.1.1 Territorial concentration and group age; 3.1.2 Mutual intelligibility; 3.1.3 Status and origin of groups.
3.2 Concluding remarks4 The dimensions of language-related conflicts; 4.1 The symbolic survival dimension; 4.2 The integration dimension; 4.3 The political dimension; 4.4 Concluding remarks; 5 Language regimes; 5.1 Monolingualism; 5.2 Multilingualism without a lingua franca; 5.3 Multilingualism with a lingua franca; 5.3.1 Neutral lingua franca; 5.3.2 Association with a majority; 5.3.3 Association with a minority; 5.4 Positioning of actual language regimes on the diagram; 5.5 Exceptions and difficult cases; 5.6 The conflict potential of language regimes; 6 Arguing for language regimes.
6.1 Efficiency6.2 Arguing for one language: the nationalist and nation-building arguments; 6.3 Arguing for tradition: recognition of difference; 6.4 Arguing for the equal support to everyone: linguistic human rights and the ecological argument; 6.5 Arguing for the principle: neutrality, democracy and laissez-faire; 6.6 A clash of arguments; 7 Stability, legitimacy, and bargaining; 7.1 Bargaining as means of achieving stability; 7.1.1 The "third" party.; 7.1.2 Limits of the bargain; 7.2 Bargaining and optimum; 8 Explaining success and failure of language regimes; 8.1 The European Union.
8.1.1 The two levels of EU language regime8.1.2 The case of the Slovak Law on the State Language; 8.1.3 Stability and prospects of the EU language regime; 8.2 Bosnia and Herzegovina; 8.2.1 History of the language-related conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 8.2.2 Language regime in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995; 8.3 The Soviet Union and its successor states; 8.3.1 Language Policies in the post-Soviet states; 8.4 South Africa; 9 Conclusion and outlook; 10 Bibliography.
3.2 Concluding remarks4 The dimensions of language-related conflicts; 4.1 The symbolic survival dimension; 4.2 The integration dimension; 4.3 The political dimension; 4.4 Concluding remarks; 5 Language regimes; 5.1 Monolingualism; 5.2 Multilingualism without a lingua franca; 5.3 Multilingualism with a lingua franca; 5.3.1 Neutral lingua franca; 5.3.2 Association with a majority; 5.3.3 Association with a minority; 5.4 Positioning of actual language regimes on the diagram; 5.5 Exceptions and difficult cases; 5.6 The conflict potential of language regimes; 6 Arguing for language regimes.
6.1 Efficiency6.2 Arguing for one language: the nationalist and nation-building arguments; 6.3 Arguing for tradition: recognition of difference; 6.4 Arguing for the equal support to everyone: linguistic human rights and the ecological argument; 6.5 Arguing for the principle: neutrality, democracy and laissez-faire; 6.6 A clash of arguments; 7 Stability, legitimacy, and bargaining; 7.1 Bargaining as means of achieving stability; 7.1.1 The "third" party.; 7.1.2 Limits of the bargain; 7.2 Bargaining and optimum; 8 Explaining success and failure of language regimes; 8.1 The European Union.
8.1.1 The two levels of EU language regime8.1.2 The case of the Slovak Law on the State Language; 8.1.3 Stability and prospects of the EU language regime; 8.2 Bosnia and Herzegovina; 8.2.1 History of the language-related conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 8.2.2 Language regime in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995; 8.3 The Soviet Union and its successor states; 8.3.1 Language Policies in the post-Soviet states; 8.4 South Africa; 9 Conclusion and outlook; 10 Bibliography.