Language and minority rights
Subtitle: ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language
By: Stephen May.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415964890; 9781410617668
Subjects: Language and languages -- Political aspects; Linguistic minorities; Ethnicity; Nationalism; Sociolinguistics; Language and education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The denunciation of ethnicity; title: Nationalism and its discontents; title: Liberal theory, multiculturalism and minority rights; title: Language, identity and minority rights; title: Language, education and minority rights; title: English hegemony and its critics: north American debates; title: Extending ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe; title: Indigenous rights: self determination, language and education; title: Minority languages and the nation-state.