Michele Gazzola

Michele Gazzola entwickelt einen Index zur Messung von sprachlicher Gerechtigkeit in verschiedenen Ländern. Damit können Unternehmen und öffentliche Institutionen ihre Sprachenpolitik systematisch bewerten und mit internationalen Standards vergleichen — relevant für Organisationen, die mehrsprachig tätig sind, sowie für Regierungen bei der Gestaltung von Sprachenpolitik. Das Verfahren verbindet quantitative Indikatoren mit normativen Kriterien, um zu erfassen, wie fair eine Gesellschaft ihre Sprachenvielfalt behandelt.

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• Der Index zur Bewertung der sprachlichen Gerechtigkeit

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  Das Ziel des Projekts ist, einen Index zur Bewertung der sprachlichen Gerechtigkeit in verschiedenen Ländern zu entwickeln, um die Sprachenpolitik dieser Länder zu vergleichen.

• Is <scp>ELF</scp> more effective and fair than translation? An evaluation of the EU's multilingual regime

  2013

  International Journal of Applied Linguistics · DOI

  The management of multilingualism in the European Union ( EU ) has become an increasingly debated issue. Some argue that ‘ E nglish as a lingua franca’ ( ELF ) should help solve many of the attendant challenges. The claim is sometimes made that ELF , as a multilingual way of using E nglish, is no longer dependent upon the practices and representations of native speakers and therefore poses no threat to linguistic diversity or to fairness. In this article, we question the relevance of the concept of ELF from a language policy perspective, showing that the socioeconomic implications of using ELF are no different from those of using E nglish only. We examine the costs associated with alternative language regimes for the EU , showing that a reduction in the direct costs of European multilingualism through the imposition of a single language merely shifts costs towards citizens whose mother tongue is not E nglish, and that re‐labelling it as ‘ ELF ’ makes no difference. The use of translation and interpreting, though not free, remains more effective (and at a reasonable cost) than a monolingual regime based on E nglish alone; it also more fair than a monolingual regime which unavoidably privileges native speakers.

• The Evaluation of Language Regimes

  2014

  Multilingualism and diversity management · DOI

  Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or “language regimes”) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step how to organise the evaluation of language regimes and how to design and interpret indicators for such evaluation. The second part of this book applies the theoretical framework to the evaluation of the language policy of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) division of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). Results show that an increase in linguistic diversity of the language regimes of patent organisations can both improve the efficiency of the patent system and lead to a more balanced distribution of costs among countries. This book is a resource for scholars in language policy and planning and for policy-makers in the international and European patent system.