Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy: Introduction and Overview; 2 Neither United nor Diverse? The Language Issue and Political Legitimation in the European Union; 3 Democracy, Communities of Communication and the European Union; 4 The EU and Languages: Diversity in What Unity?; 5 Getting Ready for a New Tower of Babel; 6 Multilingual and Multicultural Legal Reasoning: The European Court of Justice
7 The Multilingualism of the European Union Law in the National Courts: Beyond the Textbooks8 In Defence of (Limited) Multilingualism: Problems and Possibilities of the Multilingual Interpretation of European Union Law in National Courts; 9 Language Rights: The Interaction between Domestic and European Developments; 10 The Model Character of Swiss Language Law; 11 Language and Languages in European Ideology, Political Documents and Real Life