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Language, rights and the language of language rights [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Language and Politics, 2011
It is only in recent years, after a surprising long period of neglect, that political theorists began to engage with the evident normative dimension of policymaking on language. Within the body of literature that has emerged in this process, the conceptual framework of language rights maintains a central position.
Yael Peled
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Language in Human Rights

Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands), 1998
Languages are today being killed at a much faster pace than ever before in human history and linguistic diversity is disappearing relatively faster than biological diversity. Still, linguistic diversity is as necessary for the existence of our planet as biodiversity, and the two are correlated.
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove   +1 more
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Language Rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas.
Pupavac, V.,
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The Languages of Rights and of Human Rights

Philosophy, 2010
AbstractIn an attempt to control the ‘ballooning’ of (discourse about) human rights James Griffin proposes a theory of them grounded in their presumed aim of protecting what he calls ‘normative agency’. This paper criticizes the resulting theory's restriction of those thereby deemed to possess human rights only to functioning human agents, and does so ...
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Language rights

English Today, 1997
ANTHEA FRASER GUPTA considers the complex and thorny issue of the languages people may, could, must or should ...
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Language Rights

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2006
Many liberals endorse an ideal of neutrality for the state when it comes to its relations with people of distinct identities. One model in the United States has been a certain understanding of the First Amendment, with its careful balancing of free exercise, on the one hand, and nonestablishment, on the other.
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On Language Rights

Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 1998
In social and political philosophy, linguistic differences are usually seen as one item in the long and indefinite list of Cultural Differences; consequently, language rights are discussed and criticized together with other cultural rights. In this essay, it is argued that a right to use one's own language can be justified by appeal to the practical ...
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Models and languages for digital rights

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005
Digital rights management (DRM) devices provide persistent protection, which is the means to control the rendering of digital content to users. This enables new kinds of agreements between the parties involved in trading intangible goods, such as digital music.
Carl A. Gunter   +2 more
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