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Author MacMillan, C. Michael

Title The practice of language rights in Canada / C. Michael MacMillan
Published Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 263 pages)
Contents Justifying language rights -- The practice of language rights: the Canadian experience -- Legislating national language rights in Canada -- Quebec: collective rights to language -- Legislating language equality: New Brunswick -- Equality of languages: theoretical considerations -- The status of third languages -- Contemporary challenges to national language policy
Summary The Practice of Language Rights in Canada is a unique contribution to the current literature not only because it conceives of language rights as a human right but also because it frames the whole debate about language rights in Canada as a question of values and entitlements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index
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Subject Language policy -- Canada
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Language policy
Language and languages -- Law and legislation
Sprachpolitik
Zweisprachigkeit
SUBJECT Canada -- Language -- Law and legislation
Subject Canada
Kanada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442678705
1442678704