A Study Of The Protection Of Linguistic Rights In Belgium

The majority of the countries around the world are multi-ethnic countries and we all know that the issue of nationality is a crucial part concerning the stabilization of a country.In this paper the linguistic situation in Belgium and its historical development is discussed.The country has often been called a role model for the linguistic future of Europe because of its alleged success in granting equal rights to its French and Dutch language communities while preserving political unity.This paper,however,argues that Belgium is an example of a European region where the struggle for linguistic rights led from the establishment of monolingual territories(Flanders and Wallonia),to an opposition to individual bilingualism and finally to communicative “isolation” of its language communities.This claim is based on a critical account of language use in eighteenthand nineteenth-century Flanders and of language ideologies in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Belgium.Besides the introduction and conclusion this paper is divided into four parts.The total words of this paper is thirty-two thousand words:Part I: The first part gives us an overview picture of the development of Belgium linguistic problem.In this part,I combed the historical context and the current status of the development of Belgium linguistic problem and also made some analysis according to the specific situation.Among them I specific analyze the current linguistic situation in one of the largest region,the Flanders area in Belgium.Part II: The second part firstly analyzes the system behind the protection of linguistic rights from two different aspects: law and policy.Then,mainly focus on the introduction and analysis of the official and unofficial language and solution in different areas of Belgium.Part III: The third part mainly made a comprehensive analysis of the protection of Belgium linguistic rights.Besides,i also do a ten people survey in order to get the growing trend of the Belgium linguistic rights.Part IV: This part proposes our response to the Belgium linguistic problem and come up with some ideas that can deal with those questions.