ISBN:
9783110143706
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (484 p)
Series Statement:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] v.67
Series Statement:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Ser v.67
Parallel Title:
Print version Linguistic Human Rights : Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Human rights
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Language and education
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Language policy
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Linguistic minorities ; Government policy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Only a few hundred of the world's languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This volume describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights. ""Linguistic Human Rights"" introduces an area that combines sociolinguistics, educational and minority c
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; I THE SCOPE OF LINGUISTIC HUMAN RIGHTS; Section introduction; Combining immigrant and autochthonous language rights: a territorial approach to multilingualism François Grin; On the limits of ethnolinguistic democracy Joshua A. Fishman; Linguistic human rights and educational policy in Russia Alexei A. Leontiev; Linguistic human rights, past and present Tove Skutnabb-Kangas - Robert Phillipson; Typology of language legislation Joseph-G. Turi; Personal names and human rights Björn H. Jernudd; II COUNTRY STUDIES: TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT; Section introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Language policy in the United States: a history of cultural genocide Eduardo Hernández-ChávezThe discourse of disinformation: the debate on bilingual education and language rights in the United States Jim Cummins; Beyond linguistic policy: the Soviet Union versus Estonia Mart Rannut; Māori language rights in New Zealand Tīmoti S. Kāretu; The Sámi Language Act Ole Henrik Magga; Australia's language policies and minority rights: a core value perspective J. J. Smolicz; Combating educational disadvantage among Lebanese Australian children John Gibbons - William White - Pauline Gibbons
Description / Table of Contents:
III POST-COLONIAL DILEMMAS AND STRUGGLESSection introduction; Indigenous education in Latin America: policies and legal frameworks Rainer Enrique Hamel; Linguistic rights for Amerindian peoples in Latin America Rainer Enrique Hamel; "Minority" cultures and their communication rights Lachman M. Khubchandani; Kashmiri, a majority-minority language: an exploratory essay Makhan L. Tickoo; Language rights in postcolonial Africa Robert Phillipson - Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; Killing a mother tongue - how the Kurds are deprived of linguistic human rights Tove Skutnabb-Kangas - Sertaç Bucak; Appendix
Description / Table of Contents:
Extracts from selected UN and regional documents covering linguistic human rights, proposals for such and resolutions on language rightsConsolidated bibliography; Notes on contributors; Language index; Person index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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