Language: A Right and a Resource : : Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights /

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

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. T...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
MitwirkendeR:
De Varennes, Fernand,
Driessen, Bart,
Druviete, Ina,
Grin, François,
Hassanpour, Amir,
Kontra, Miklós,
Martel, Angéline,
Muzsnai, István,
Ozolins, Uldis,
Phillipson, Robert,
Rannut, Mart,
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,
Szalai, Andrea,
Sándor, Klára,
Várady, Tibor,
HerausgeberIn:
Kontra, Miklós,
Phillipson, Robert,
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,
Várady, Tibor,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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