| Description |
310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Tove / Francisca Sanchez -- Such a Treasure of Knowledge for Human Survival / Kerttu Vuolab -- Linguistic and Biological Diversity: The Inextricable Link / Luisa Maffi -- Rethinking Language Defense / Joshua A. Fishman and Gella Schweid Fishman -- Maintaining, Developing and Sharing the Knowledge and Potential Embedded in All Our Languages and Cultures: On Linguists as Agents of Epistemic Violence / Jan Branson and Don Miller -- The Politics of A-political Linguistics: Linguists and Linguicide / Amir Hassanpour -- Language Emancipation: The Finnish Case / Anna-Ritta Lindgren -- Linguistic Pluralism: A Point of Departure / D. P. Pattanayak -- Birch - Wind - Looks / Lilja Liukka -- Culture, Sharing and Language / Probal Dasgupta -- 'Spirit of the Earth' / Constance M. Beutel -- Language Maintenance as an Arena of Cultural and Political Struggles in a Changing World / Naz Rassool -- Human Rights: The Next Fifty Years / Cees Hamelink -- Tolerance and Inclusion: The Convergence of Human Rights and the Work of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas / Fernand de Varennes -- Unity in Difference - Belonging / Pirkko Leporanta-Molrey -- Discourse and Access / Teun A. van Dijk -- Language Rights for the Language of Norfolk Island / Peter Muhlhausler -- The Latvian Language Law Debate: Some Aspects of Linguistic Human Rights in Education / Ina Druviete -- Use of Language Rights by Minorities / E. Annamalai -- (Un)Writing the Margins: Steps Toward an Ecology of Language / Mark Fettes -- Writing for Diversity / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- On the Financing of Language Policies and Distributive Justice / Francois Grin and Francois Vaillancourt -- Towards More Fairness in International English: Linguistic Rights of Non-native Speakers? / Ulrich Ammon -- Linguicism in Action: Language and Power in Academic Institutions / Masaki Oda -- Equality of Opportunity and Assimilation. Or: We German Left-wing Do-gooders and Minority Language Rights / Antje-Katrin Menk -- Science and Policy - When does Science Matter? / Ingegerd Municio-Larsson -- From Historical Shame to Present Struggle / Jarmo Lainio -- Which Contacts Breed Conflicts? / Miklos Kontra -- Exclusion as Discursive Practice and the Politics of Identity / Mustafa Hussain -- Paradoxes of Plurilingualism. For better? For worse? And Beyond? / Angeline Martel -- Promoting Multilingualism and Linguistic Human Rights in the Era of Economic Rationalism and Globalization / Michael Clyne -- Language Resilience and Educational Empowerment: Philippines and Australia / Jerzy J. Smolicz and Margaret J. Secombe -- Language Policy and Planning in South Africa: Some Insights / Neville Alexander -- Mother Tongue Education: The Key to African Language Development? A Conversation with an Imagined South African Audience / Zubeida Desai -- Common Practice and Linguistic Human Rights: A-Team v. B-Team Coercion or the Co-construction of 'Utopia' / Shelley K. Taylor -- Creating a Bilingual Family in a 'Monolingual' Country / Leena Huss -- The Reindeer on the Mountain, the Reindeer in the Mind: On Sami Yoik Lyrics / Harald Gaski -- The Linguistic Human Rights of Sign Language Users / Markku Jokinen -- The Linguistic Problem Child has Many Names / Pertti Toukomaa -- Creating a Successful Minority School / Markku Peura -- Bilingual versus Bilingual Education: The Case of Slovakia / Istvan Lanstyak -- Giving God Weight to Multilingualism in South Africa / Kathleen Heugh -- Education for All - In Whose Language? / Birgit Brock-Utne -- Language: A Diversity Category Beyond All Others / Ofelia Garcia -- 'This Place Nurtures my Spirit': Creating Contexts of Empowerment in Linguistically-diverse Schools / Jim Cummins -- Dual Language Models and Intergenerational Inspirations / Dawn Wink and Joan Wink -- Integrative Comment: Living with Vision and Commitment / Robert Phillipson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-303) and index |
| Subject |
Language policy.
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Language and education.
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Language planning.
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Human rights.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Author |
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove.
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Phillipson, Robert.
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| LC no. |
00021044 |
| ISBN |
080583835X paperback |
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0805833463 cased |
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