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Language: A Right and a Resource : Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights / ed. by Miklós Kontra, Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Tibor Várady.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789633865217
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Conceptualising and Implementing Linguistic Human Rights -- GENERAL ISSUES -- International Languages and International Human Rights -- Heroes, Rebels, Communities and States in Language Rights Activism and Litigation -- "Don't Speak Hungarian in Public!"— A Documentation and Analysis of Folk Linguistic Rights -- The Common Language Problem -- LEGAL ISSUES -- The Existing Rights of Minorities in International Law -- The Slovak State Language Law as a Trade Law Problem -- MARKET ISSUES -- Market Forces, Language Spread and Linguistic Diversity -- Linguistic Diversity, Human Rights and the "Free" Market -- Language Rights in the Emerging World Linguistic Order: The State, the Market and Communication Technologies -- LANGUAGE PLANNING ISSUES -- Separating Language from Ethnicity: The Paradoxes of Strict Language Policies and Increasing Social Harmony in the Baltic States -- Language Policy in a Changing Society: Problematic Issues in the Implementation of International Linguistic Human Rights Standards -- EDUCATION AND ETHNICITY ISSUES -- The Recognition of Sign Language: A Threat or the Way to a Solution? -- Linguistic Human Rights Problems among Romani and Boyash Speakers in Hungary with Special Attention to Education -- Contempt for Linguistic Human Rights in the Service of the Catholic Church: The Case of the Csángós -- Index
Summary: Linguistic Human Rights (LHR) is a fast growing new area of study combining the principles of national and international law with the study of language as a central dimension of ethnicity. Implementation of these principles is aimed at ensuring that no state or society violates these basic rights. This path breaking study broadens our knowledge of the important role of language in minority rights and in social and political struggles for LHRs. Exploring the interactions of linguistic diversity, biodiversity, the free market and human rights, the contributors present case studies to highlight such issues as Kurdish satellite TV attempting to create a virtual state on the air through trying to achieve basic LHR’s for Kurds in Turkey; the implementation of LHRs in the Baltic states; language rights activism in Canada; the spread of English as an international language; and the obstacles met in education by Roma and the Deaf in Hungary because of lack of appropriate LHRs. Language: A Right and a Resource is a valuable multi-disciplinary text which can be used in a variety of different areas of study in the legal profession, linguistics, cultural and political studies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Conceptualising and Implementing Linguistic Human Rights -- GENERAL ISSUES -- International Languages and International Human Rights -- Heroes, Rebels, Communities and States in Language Rights Activism and Litigation -- "Don't Speak Hungarian in Public!"— A Documentation and Analysis of Folk Linguistic Rights -- The Common Language Problem -- LEGAL ISSUES -- The Existing Rights of Minorities in International Law -- The Slovak State Language Law as a Trade Law Problem -- MARKET ISSUES -- Market Forces, Language Spread and Linguistic Diversity -- Linguistic Diversity, Human Rights and the "Free" Market -- Language Rights in the Emerging World Linguistic Order: The State, the Market and Communication Technologies -- LANGUAGE PLANNING ISSUES -- Separating Language from Ethnicity: The Paradoxes of Strict Language Policies and Increasing Social Harmony in the Baltic States -- Language Policy in a Changing Society: Problematic Issues in the Implementation of International Linguistic Human Rights Standards -- EDUCATION AND ETHNICITY ISSUES -- The Recognition of Sign Language: A Threat or the Way to a Solution? -- Linguistic Human Rights Problems among Romani and Boyash Speakers in Hungary with Special Attention to Education -- Contempt for Linguistic Human Rights in the Service of the Catholic Church: The Case of the Csángós -- Index

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Linguistic Human Rights (LHR) is a fast growing new area of study combining the principles of national and international law with the study of language as a central dimension of ethnicity. Implementation of these principles is aimed at ensuring that no state or society violates these basic rights. This path breaking study broadens our knowledge of the important role of language in minority rights and in social and political struggles for LHRs. Exploring the interactions of linguistic diversity, biodiversity, the free market and human rights, the contributors present case studies to highlight such issues as Kurdish satellite TV attempting to create a virtual state on the air through trying to achieve basic LHR’s for Kurds in Turkey; the implementation of LHRs in the Baltic states; language rights activism in Canada; the spread of English as an international language; and the obstacles met in education by Roma and the Deaf in Hungary because of lack of appropriate LHRs. Language: A Right and a Resource is a valuable multi-disciplinary text which can be used in a variety of different areas of study in the legal profession, linguistics, cultural and political studies.

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