Language Rights [electronic resource] : From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance /
Pupavac, V.author.
Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Contesting Human Rights, Language and Politics; 2 The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Legal Governance of Politics; 3 From Enlightenment Speech to Romantic National Languages; 4 From Romantic Subjectivity to Post-Romantic Cultural Identities and Linguistic Adaptation; 5 Righting Babel? Translation as Cultural Transfusion or Cultural Violence; 6 Linguistic Imperialism, Global English and Modernity
7 Anti-Colonial and Post-Independence Language Politics: From Emancipatory Aspirations to Limits8 Language Rights Politics in the Former Yugoslavia and International Therapeutic Governance in Bosnia; 9 Ecolinguistics and Post-Humanist Advocacy; 10 From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance; Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?; Bibliography; Index
Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.
Applied linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Political science.
Ethnicity.
Applied Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Political Science and International Relations, general.
Ethnicity Studies.
Human Rights.