Resumen de Political culture and intergroup relations in plurilingual Switzerland
Switzerland is widely ignored in the literature on multilingualism unless it is merely cited as an exemplary model of successful cohabitation and conflict management. This article argues that this image gives a misleadingly static impression of harmonious inter‐cultural relations and that as a result little attention has been paid to the nature and extent of multilingual and multicultural development within the federation. These issues are discussed against the background of recent research into language contact and diversity in Switzerland, in an attempt to contribute to a more sharply focused analysis of some of the linguistic and cultural problems and paradoxes in this highly complex society.
