Linguistic human rights
Subtitle: overcoming linguistic discrimination
By: edited by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, in collaboration with Mart Rannut.
Contributors: Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove.; Phillipson, Robert.; Rannut, Mart, 1959-
Series: Contributions to the sociology of language ;; 67
Publisher: M. de Gruyter
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Linguistic minorities -- Government policy.; Language policy.; Human rights.; Language and education.
Description: Only a few hundred of the world's 6,000-7,000 languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This book describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why, and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights. Linguistic Human Rights introduces a new area, combining sociolinguistics, educational, and minority concerns with human rights. Discrimination against language minorities is widespread, despite national and international law prohibiting this. The book analyzes language rights in many countries worldwide, including North and Latin America, several European states, the former USSR, India, Kurdistan, Australia and New Zealand. -- Description from http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ (Jan. 29, 2016).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-453) and indexes.
An appendix includes extracts from selected UN and regional documents covering linguistic human rights, proposals for such, and resolutions on language rights.