Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ621577
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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The Asmara Declaration as a Sociolinguistic Problem: Reflections on Scholarship and Linguistic Rights.
Blommaert, Jan
Journal of Sociolinguistics, v5 n1 p131-42 Feb 2001
Discusses the Asmara Declaration, a declaration about linguistic rights of African languages and their speakers drafted by African scholars and writers at a conference in Asmara, Eritrea. Suggests that there is a problem in the quality of much of the work committed to language rights. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: African Languages, Civil Liberties, Language Minorities, Language Role, Politics, Sociolinguistics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Note: For related article, see FL 531 284.
