Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument about the nature of democracy and how the current changes in governmental discourses accommodate linguistic and cultural diversity.

GLYN WILLIAMS is Currently Research Professor, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain. Formerly he was Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of San Francisco, USA, Reader in Sociology, University of Wales, Bangor, and Director, Research Centre Wales, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.