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Digressions
(2015)
Der Beitrag von Bruno Strecker Digressions ist auf Französisch geschrieben (der Muttersprache von Jacqueline Kubczak) und handelt von unterschiedlichen Exkursen. Er macht die Verbindung zwischen Kommunikationssituation und Arten der Exkurse sichtbar und bietet eine darauf basierende Typologie der Exkurse an. In einem zweiten Schritt werden die formalen Möglichkeiten, einen Exkurs einzuleiten und zu formulieren, dargestellt (z. B. durch Appositionen, Parenthesen, festgelegte Ausdrucksformen wie A propos xxx, Ça me rappelle oder nicht eingebettete Phrasen). Schließlich zeigt er, wie man aus dem Exkurs wieder „in die Spur“ kommt.
This chapter analyses the impact of political decentralization in a state on the position of ethnic and linguistic minorities, in particular with regard to the role of parliamentary assemblies in the political system. It relates a number of typical functions of parliaments to the specific needs of minorities and their languages. The most important of these functions are the representation of the minority and responsiveness to the minority’s needs. The chapter then discusses six examples from the European Union (and Norway) which prototypically represent different types of parliamentary decentralization: the ethnically defined Sameting in Norway and its importance for the Sámi population, the Scottish Parliament and its role for speakers of Scottish Gaelic, the German regional parliaments of the Länder of Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony and their impact on the Frisian and Sorbian minorities respectively, the autonomy of predominantly German-speaking South Tyrol within the Italian state, and finally the situation of the speakers of Latgalian in Latvia, where a decentralized parliament is missing. The chapter also makes suggestions on comparisons of these situations with minorities in Russia. It finally argues that political decentralization may indeed empower minorities to gain a greater voice in their states, even if much ultimately depends on individual factors in each situation and the attitudes by the majority population and the political center.