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Linguistic Human Rights : Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination /

Linguistic Human Rights : Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination / ed. by Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. - Reprint 2010 - 1 online resource (478 p.) - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 67 1861-0676 ; .

I-VI -- Introduction -- I THE SCOPE OF LINGUISTIC HUMAN RIGHTS -- Section introduction -- Combining immigrant and autochthonous language rights: a territorial approach to multilingualism -- On the limits of ethnolinguistic democracy -- Linguistic human rights and educational policy in Russia -- Linguistic human rights, past and present -- Typology of language legislation -- Personal names and human rights -- II COUNTRY STUDIES: TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT -- Section introduction -- Language policy in the United States: a history of cultural genocide -- The discourse of disinformation: the debate on bilingual education and language rights in the United States -- Beyond linguistic policy: the Soviet Union versus Estonia -- Māori language rights in New Zealand -- The Sámi Language Act -- Australia's language policies and minority rights: a core value perspective -- Combating educational disadvantage among Lebanese Australian children -- III POST-COLONIAL DILEMMAS AND STRUGGLES -- Section introduction -- Indigenous education in Latin America: policies and legal frameworks -- Linguistic rights for Amerindian peoples in Latin America -- “Minority” cultures and their communication rights -- Kashmiri, a majority-minority language: an exploratory essay -- Language rights in postcolonial Africa -- Killing a mother tongue – how the Kurds are deprived of linguistic human rights -- Appendix: Extracts from selected UN and regional documents covering linguistic human rights, proposals for such and resolutions on language rights -- Consolidated bibliography -- Notes on contributors -- Language index -- Person index -- Subject index

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In English.

9783110143706 9783110866391

10.1515/9783110866391 doi


Human rights.
Language and education.
Language policy.
Linguistic minorities--Government policy.
Menschenrecht.
Sprachliche Minderheit.
Sprachpolitik.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

P119.315 / .L55 1995eb

306.4/49