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Rearticulating the Case for Minority Language Rights [PDF]
Current Issues in Language Planning, 2003 While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key limitations. In this paper, I address directly three current key criticisms of the MLR movement. The first is
May, Stephen
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Minority Language Rights [PDF]
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997 Contests over human rights as claims or entitlements to state assistance are how a major, if relatively recent, feature of the socio-political processes and institutions, of modern societies (Turner 1993). Within this wider debate about human rights, the subject of minority rights has long been of concern (Dinstein and Tabory 1992, Sigler 1983).
Nic Shuibhne, Niamh, Raigáin, P. Ó.
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Citizenship and Education Policies in the post-Yugoslav States [PDF]
, 2012 This paper explores interactions between citizenship and education policies in six post-Yugoslav contexts, focusing on group and individual education rights, ethnocentric, multicultural and civic elements of citizenship in education policies, and the ...
Pantic, Natasa
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Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states [PDF]
, 2006 Pupavac examines the rise of linguistic human rights advocacy and its approach in a case study of language politics in the post-Yugolav states. A core concern of contemporary linguistic rights advocacy has been to tackle ethnically based discrimination ...
Pupavac, Vanessa
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Minority language rights and education in China: the relevance of human rights law and substantive equality [PDF]
, 2011 This chapter considers the potential role of international human rights law, especially provisions which are applicable to China, in mediating competing interests and objectives when determining minority language policy in the education context.
Loper, KA
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La judiciarisation des conflits linguistiques au Canada [PDF]
, 1986 In this paper the author examines the importance of constitutional litigation as an instrument for promoting minority linguistic rights in Canada. He goes on to explain the reasons which drove him to challenge a unilingual English traffic summons which ...
Bilodeau, Roger
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The Right to Language and its Contemporary Significance for New Zealand [PDF]
, 2006 The right of linguistic minorities to speak their own language in community with other members of their group (the right to language) is deserving of specific attention for two reasons.
Connell, Charlotte
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Conflict, Claim and Contradiction in the New Indigenous State of Bolivia [PDF]
, 2012 Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in
Canessa, A
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NATIONAL LANGUAGE & MINORITY LANGUAGE RIGHTS
Englisia Journal, 2017 This brief paper highlights the perspectives of those proposing and opposing the idea of Minority Language Right (MLR). Then, the paper relates this discussion to the context of bi/multilingualism in Indonesia by referring to cases of bi/multilingualism in different contexts.
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Language planning and policy, law and (post)colonial relations in small Island States : a case study [PDF]
, 2017 Language planning and policy (LPP) in postcolonial island states is often strongly (co)determined by the former colonizer's state tradition. Comparable to the examples of the development of LPP in Cabo Verde (Baptista, Brito, & Bangura, 2010), Haiti ...
Bröring, Herman, Mijts, Eric
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