Language rights : from free speech to linguistic governance /

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 oth...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pupavac, Vanessa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities.
Subjects:
Linguistic rights.
Language and languages > Political aspects.
Freedom of speech.
Droits linguistiques (Droit international)
Langage et langues > Aspect politique.
Liberté d'expression.
Sociolinguistics.
Freedom of information & freedom of speech.
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics.
Languages.
Freedom of speech
Language and languages > Political aspects
Linguistic rights
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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