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Université de Fribourg

19. Multilingualism in Switzerland

Grünert, Matthias

In: Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics, 2018, p. 526-548

This chapter deals with the two Romance languages which are officially recognized as minority languages of Switzerland, Romansh and Italian, and with Francoprovençal and French dialects spoken marginally in the francophone area of Switzerland. Romansh, the language that has gained new recognition in the process leading to the quadrilingual Swiss Confederation, is considered in most detail. The...

Université de Fribourg

50 years of radiation protection and nuclear power in Switzerland : a brief history

Völkle, Hansruedi

In: Atoms For Peace: an International Journal, 2006, vol. 1, no. 2-3, p. 239-244

This article presents a short history of research in nuclear physics as well as of 50 years of nuclear power and radiation protection in Switzerland. After the International Conference 'Atoms for Peace' held in 1955 in Geneva the first research reactor was installed in Switzerland. A national environmental radioactivity monitoring programme was started in 1956. Today some 40% of the...

Université de Fribourg

Administration fédérale et représentation des communautés linguistiques : Analyse des processus et stratégies de recrutement du personnel : Executive Summary = Bundesverwaltung und Vertretung der Sprachgemeinschaften: Analyse der Personalrekrutierungsprozesse und -strategien

Coray, Renata ; Kobelt, Emilienne ; Zwicky, Roman ; Duchêne, Alexandre ; Kübler, Daniel

In Switzerland’s political dialogue, an adequate representation of Swiss language communities in the Federal Administration is considered to be a vital expression of multilingualism in Switzerland. Diverse legal bases and directives have been created and issued in the interest of reaching this goal. Nonetheless, questions concerning implementation and effectiveness of these measures remain open...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Age-period-cohort analysis of Swiss suicide data, 1881-2000

Ajdacic-Gross, V. ; Bopp, M. ; Gostynski, M. ; Lauber, C. ; Gutzwiller, F. ; Rössler, W.

In: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2006, vol. 256, no. 4, p. 207-214