Linguistic Human Rights : : Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination / / ed. by Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bucak, Sertaç,; Cummins, Jim,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Gibbons, John,; Gibbons, Pauline,; Grin, François,; Hamel, Rainer Enrique,; Hernández-Chávez, Eduardo,; Jernudd, Björn H.,; Khubchandani, Lachman M.,; Kāretu, Tīmoti S.,; Leontiev, Alexei A.,; Magga, Ole Henrik,; Phillipson, Robert,; Rannut, Mart,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,; Smolicz, J. J.,; Tickoo, Makhan L.,; Turi, Joseph-G.,; White, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Phillipson, Robert,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 67
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.)

Table of Contents

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