Research on Language Rights has produced an enormous-and
unwieldy-corpus of literature. Such work often has limitations
because scholars from different disciplinary traditions have seldom
coordinated their concerns or integrated the conceptual traditions
of particular fields. To enable researchers and advanced students
to make sense of this vast literature, and the disparate scholarly
approaches, Routledge announces Language Rights, a new title in its
Critical Concepts in Language Studies series. In four volumes, the
set draws on a wide range of disciplines, including language
policy, political theory, education, law, philosophy, anthropology,
economics, minority studies, deaf studies, and Indigenous
cosmologies. The editors have assembled both normative texts and
studies of their practical applications over the past century in a
wide range of countries, as well as more diverse interventions and
interpretations. Volume I ('Language Rights, Past and Present: From
Minority Rights to Linguistic Human Rights') presents some of the
basic concepts in language rights and traces developments from
treaties and national constitutions to human rights principles, and
conditions for the maintenance of languages. Volume II
('Multilingualism, Education, and Language Rights Granted or
Denied: Policies and Politics') explores the tensions between
homogenizing nation states and the status of indigenous and
minority languages in education. Volume III in the collection
('Language Rights and Endangered Languages') brings together the
best thinking on recent developments in language and cultural
revitalization through community mobilization around language
rights, especially in education, the preconditions for their
success, their relationship to land rights and self-determination,
and state responses to demands for language rights. Finally, Volume
IV ('Language Rights: Global and Regional Integration and Diversity
Maintenance') assesses ongoing trends of regional and global
integration and questions the prospects for the world's languages
in the light of economic and cultural constraints, and the
weaknesses of the international human rights system. With newly
written, comprehensive introductions to each volume, and to the
collection as a whole, Language Rights is destined to be welcomed
as a vital research and pedagogic resource.
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