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1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities |
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Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities.
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| Contents |
Contesting Human Rights, Language, and Politics -- The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Governance of Politics -- Enlightenment Speech to Romantic National Languages -- From Romantic Subjectivity to Post-Romantic Cultural Identities and Linguistic Adaptation -- Righting Babel? Translation as Cultural Transfusion or Cultural Violence -- Linguistic Imperialism, Global English and Modernity -- Anticolonial and Post-Independence Language Politics: From Emancipatory Aspirations to Limits -- Language Rights Politics in Former Yugoslavia and Therapeutic Cultural Governance in Bosnia -- Ecolinguistics and Post-Humanist Advocacy -- From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance -- Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance? |
| Summary |
Speech is core to our humanity and fundamental to our capacity to assert political rights, and determine what is just and unjust. Rights therefore mean little if they do not relate to speech. But what are language rights? What language or speech is defended? How do language rights relate to each other? This book explores these questions and examines language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, bringing together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. It includes a critical exploration of the following issues: Language rights as linguistic identity rights, International linguistic human rights in theory and practice, Language rights advocacy and global governance, Linguistic imperialism and global English debates, National language politics and global governance in Bosnia, The emerging field of ecolinguistics, Hate speech and counter-terrorism legislation. The author looks at how, why and where freedom of speech is endangered, and argues that international language rights advocacy supports the global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-312) and index |
| Subject |
Linguistic rights.
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Language and languages -- Political aspects.
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Freedom of speech.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Freedom of information & freedom of speech.
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Languages.
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Freedom of speech
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Language and languages -- Political aspects
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Linguistic rights
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137284044 |
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1137284048 |
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