Linguistic Human Rights : Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination.
Only a few hundred of the world's languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are depr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
1994.
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Colección: | Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSL.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Only a few hundred of the world's languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This volume describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights. ""Linguistic Human Rights"" introduces an area that combines sociolinguistics, educational and minority c. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (484 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-453) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9783110866391 3110866390 |