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Rights to Language

2000
This work brings together cutting-edge scholarship in language, education and society from all parts of the world. Celebrating the 60th birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, it is inspired by her work in minority, indigenous and immigrant education; multilingualism; linguistic human rights; and global language and power issues.
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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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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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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 in the Nondominant Right Hemisphere

Archives of Neurology, 1983
Language function was evaluated in the right nondominant hemisphere in three patients undergoing cortical resection for intractable seizures. Three linguistic tests were given during electrical stimulation of the cortex. They represented three different levels of language complexity from lowest to highest as follows: task 1, object naming; task 2 ...
S, Bhatnagar, O J, Andy
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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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The problem with rights expression languages

Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Digital rights management, 2006
In this paper we consider the functionality that a rights expression language (REL) should provide within a digital rights management (DRM) environment. We begin by noting the dearth of applications that make use of RELs, despite the fact that they have now been available since the late 1990's.
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar   +2 more
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On ‘Rights Language’

2016
With respect to allegations that the Court of Justice uses ‘rights language’ in order to justify intrusions into national legal orders and hence refers to rights wherever this is considered beneficial for such purposes, it is submitted that this seems a little exaggerated.
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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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