“脱欧”背景下欧盟语言规划的困境与出路

欧盟自成立以来推行多语主义的语言政策,但在落实中官方语言、工作语言、通用语言之间却存在明显不对等性,从而给语言意识形态和语言生活实践带来困惑乃至冲突。英国"脱欧"无疑将改变英国和欧盟的语言格局,因而重新审视这一政治变迁进程中与语言规划和语言政策有关的基本命题,显得尤为重要。本文从英国"脱欧"公投后媒体对欧盟语言政策走向的报道为切入点,分析了上述不平等性,认为学界现有的各种单语或多语改革建议均不尽完善。后脱欧时代无论英语的功能和地位如何变化,欧盟语言规划治理都将面临巨大的挑战。

Since its establishment,the European Union has been committed to the implementation of multilingualism.However,there are obvious inequalities between the official languages,working languages and lingua franca,which brings confusions and even conflicts to language ideology and language practice.Brexit will undoubtedly change the linguistic environment of the UK and the EU,and thus it is particularly important to re-examine the basic propositions related to language planning and language policy in this political transition.After an analysis of the media reports of the EU language policy after the British Brexit referendum,this article discusses the above inequalities,arguing that the various monolingual or multilingual reform proposals existing in the academic circle are all insufficient.In the post-Brexit era,no matter how the function and status of English change,EU language planning and governance will face enormous challenges.