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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.)
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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