title: Constitutional and legal regulation of the use of languages in multinational federations: Lessons from Belgium and India
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metadata.value: Mochalov, Artur N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T12:50:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T12:50:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Mochalov, Artur N. 2020. “Constitutional and legal regulation of the use of languages in multinational federations: Lessons from Belgium and India”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 4: 852–876.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2020.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/22641
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the article, the key characteristics of the status of official languages, linguistic rights and
  guarantees in multinational federations are discussed. Unlike many nation-states where the
  constitutions proclaim a regime of monolingualism, multinational federations are always
  multilinguistic. The practice of federalism has developed various approaches to the choice
  and constitutional stipulation of the status of state (or official) languages of federations and
  their interrelation with official languages of sub-federal entities and other languages of ethnic
  groups living within the country. As material for a more in-depth analysis, the author has
  chosen two multinational federations — Belgium and India. These two federations use different
  constitutional models for regulating the use of languages which have evolved in different
  social, cultural, and historical contexts. Despite this, the experiences of these federations (even taking into consideration the significant differences between them) illustrate certain common
  features. In particular, the author, using comparative methodology, comes to the conclusion
  that if a state population is deeply divided along linguistic-territorial lines, it is likely that the
  initial attempt of a constitutional legislator to establish a monolinguistic constitutional regime
  would fail and lead to a deeper polarization and political conflicts. By analyzing the use of the
  English language in India and Belgium as well as its constitutional status, the author discusses
  the role of a politically neutral lingua franca as a medium in a multinational state. The author
  examines not only legal regulation concerning languages, but also the processes of the development
  of mechanisms of legal regulation and the social, political, and historical contexts of
  development.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project no. 18-311-00202 “Multinational
  Federalism: Constitutional-law Conceptualization”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: official language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: linguistic rights
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: linguistic guarantees
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: multinational federation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: multinational federalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: linguistic federalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Constitutional and legal regulation of the use of languages in multinational federations: Lessons from Belgium and India
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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