Linguistic Human Rights - Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	June 1995
First published:	1995
Editors:	Tove Skutnabb-Kangas • Robert Phillipson
Contributors:	Mart Rannut
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	484
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-014878-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
LSN:	3-11-014878-1
Barcode:	9783110148787

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