| Description |
vi, 478 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Contributions to the sociology of language ; 67 |
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Contributions to the sociology of language ; 67
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| Contents |
Introduction / Robert Phillipson, Mart Rannut and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- I. The Scope of Linguistic Human Rights. Combining immigrant and autochthonous language rights: a territorial approach to multilingualism / Francois Grin |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
An appendix includes extracts from selected UN and regional documents covering linguistic human rights, proposals for such, and resolutions on language rights |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-453) and indexes |
| Notes |
Contributions to the sociology of language no:67 1861-0676 |
| Subject |
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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Linguistic minorities.
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| Author |
Phillipson, Robert.
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Rannut, Mart, 1959-
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Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove.
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| LC no. |
94026525 |
| ISBN |
3110143704 |
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