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Abram de Swaan
Abram de Swaan is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Chairman of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research and Director of the Academia Europea de Yuste (Spain). His most recent book is Words of the World; the Global Language System.
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Europe’s English-Speaking Peoples
Abram de Swaan Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2005-09-07The European Union has a single currency, but what about a single language? Since its inception, the EU has made each member state’s language one of its official tongues. Recently, even Irish, spoken at home by only a tiny minority, was granted full official status.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 43168
