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Language, rights and the language of language rights

Journal 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.
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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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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 Policies and Language Rights

Annual Review of Anthropology, 1997
This review is an overview of the newly developing field of language rights. It distinguishes between (a) historical/descriptive studies where language rights are treated as the resultant variable with no attempt to predict consequences, and (b) exhortatory and ideologically based studies in which language rights are considered a causal variable.
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Language Use, Language Policy, and Language Rights

2018
This chapter, analyzes the evolution and spatial distribution of the Hungarian linguistic community, the language proficiency, linguistic attitudes, and patterns of language usage of Hungarians in Romania. Furthermore, it assesses the language rights codified in Romania and their implementation, also providing a brief comparative analysis of Romania ...
István Horváth, Tibor Toró
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Language Rights and Language Repression

2018
Many historical and contemporary conflicts in the world today, while often ostensibly framed in ethnic terms, actually involve language—and by extension, language policy—as a key catalyst or concern. This chapter charts how the widespread practice of enforcing linguistic homogeneity within modern nations-states, based on the view that this will ...
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Language Policy and Language Rights

2007
Abstract In most countries along the Pacific Rim, there is an increasing mismatch between official policy, which has become progressively more liberal and supportive of minority linguistic and other rights, and the reality of continuing loss of indigenous minority languages.
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Contextualizing language rights

Journal of Human Rights, 2003
(2003). Contextualizing language rights. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 551-571.
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Rights Expression Languages

2009
Rights expression languages (RELs) form a central component of digital rights management (DRM) systems. The process of development of RELs transforms the rights requirements to a formal language ready to be used in DRM systems. Decisions regarding the design of the conceptual model, syntax, semantics, and other such properties of the language, affect ...
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, Gregory L. Heileman   +1 more
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