Prawa językowe i dyskryminacja językowa w prawie Unii Europejskiej

Abstract

The topic of basic principles of the linguistic policy of the European Union, European law and the ECJ’s jurisprudence on language rights of EU citizens and prevention of linguistic discrimination remain still unexploited in scientific literature. The paper focuses on language rights of individuals in their relations with EU institutions in the case-study of recruitment processes. In the introduction the general, sociolinguistic context, related to the Language Human Rights movement and linguistic policy was taken into consideration with regard to fundamental rights issues. Despite the specific, legal character of discourse and reasoning applied in the paper, the conclusions presented on their grounds seem to be important for sociolinguistics since it is within i.a. this institutionalised communication that takes place a debate on the problems of languages in contact, functioning of multilingualism, and some directives concerning linguistic communication that influence its everyday realisations in UE.