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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students,
researchers and practitioners in all of the social and
language-related sciences carefully selected book-length
publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings
and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in
its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary
field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical,
supplement and complement each other. The series invites the
attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests,
sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians
etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
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.
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