ERIC Number: ED397671
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 484
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ISBN: ISBN-3-11-014878-1
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Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination.
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, Ed.; Phillipson, Robert, Ed.
A collection of essays on linguistic human rights includes: "Combining Immigrant and Autochthonous Language Rights: A Territorial Approach to Multilingualism" (Francois Grin); "On the Limits of Ethnolinguistic Democracy" (Joshua A. Fishman); "Linguistic Human Rights and Educational Policy in Russia" (Alexei A. Leontiev); "Linguistic Human Rights, Past and Present" (Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson); "Typology of Language Legislation" (Joseph-G. Turi); "Personal Names and Human Rights" (Bjorn H. Jernudd); "Language Policy in the United States: A History of Cultural Genocide" (Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez); "The Discourse of Disinformation: The Debate on Bilingual Education and Language Rights in the United States" (Jim Cummins); "Beyond Linguistic Policy: The Soviet Union versus Estonia" (Mart Rannut); "Maori Language Rights in New Zealand" (Timoti S. Karetu); "The Sami Language Act" (Ole Henrik Magga); "Australia's Language Policies and Minority Rights: A Core Value Perspective" (J. J. Smolicz); "Combating Educational Disadvantage Among Lebanese Australian Children" (John Gibbons, William White, Pauline Gibbons); "Indigenous Education in Latin America: Policies and Legal Frameworks" (Rainer Enrique Hamel); "Linguistic Rights for Amerindian Peoples in Latin America" (Hamel); "'Minority' Cultures and Their Communication Rights" (Lachman M. Khubchandani); "Kashmiri, a Majority-Minority Language: An Exploratory Essay" (Makhan L. Tickoo); "and "Killing a Mother Tongue--How the Kurds Are Deprived of Linguistic Human Rights" (Skutnabb-Kangas, Sertac Bucak). Appended are extracts from selected United Nations and regional documents covering linguistic human rights. Contains a consolidated bibliography and an index. (MSE)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Civil Liberties, Classification, Democratic Values, Educational Policy, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Indigenous Populations, Kashmiri, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Role, Legislation, Maori, Maori (People), Minority Groups, Multilingualism, Public Policy, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Mouton de Gruyter & Co., D-10785 Berlin, Germany.
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Books
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Africa; Australia; Estonia; Finland; Lebanon; New Zealand; Russia; United States; USSR
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