Handbook of linguistic human rights / / edited by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910676517903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 1-119-75386-4; 1-119-75392-9; 1-119-75390-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (739 pages)
• Collana: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
• Disciplina: 341.485
• Soggetti: Linguistic rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : establishing linguistic human rights / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson -- Linguistic human rights in international law / Robert Dunbar -- Approaches to linguistic human rights in political theory and sociology / Stephen May -- Linguistic and epistemic erasure in Africa : coloniality, linguistic human rights and decoloniality / Kathleen Heugh -- Struggling to access health information in the midst of a pandemic : linguistic human rights in Indonesia / Hywel Coleman and David Fero -- Economic and policy issues in linguistic human rights promotion / FrançOis Grin -- Preventing the implementation of linguistic human rights in education / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- Debating linguistic human rights in Militarised Myanmar : political agitation and policy deliberation / Joseph Lo Bianco -- Language policy implications of "global English" for linguistic human rights / Robert Phillipson -- From neoliberal to Decolonial language rights and reparative linguistic justice / Ahmed Kabel -- Some shortcomings of linguistic rights / Gudmundur Alfredsson -- Linguistic human rights challenges in the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues / Fernand De Varennes -- Time, politics, and linguistic human rights : bringing words to our songs / Elsa Stamatopoulou -- Linguistic human rights challenges in the work of the UN permanent forum on indigenous issues / Ole Henrik Magga ; -- Linguistic human rights in relation to the administration of justice : a European perspective / Kristin Henrard -- Using the UN Human Rights Treaty System to defend LHRs / Andrea Bear Nicholas, Lorena Fontaine, Amos Key Jr., and Karihwakéron Tim Thompson -- The Bangkok statement on language and inclusion : a rose by any other name? / Kirk R. Person -- Linguistic human rights in the work of the world federation of the deaf / Victoria Manning, Joseph J. Murray and Alexandre Bloxs -- Resistance to the violations of linguistic Human Rights in Nunavut, Canada / Aluki Kotierk -- Linguicide and historicide / Andrea Bear Nicholas -- Linguistic Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples in the USA / Jon Reyhner -- Linguistic Human Rights of Minorities in China / Minglang Zhou -- Linguistic Human Rights in Tibet : advocacy and denial / Gerald Roche -- Linguistic, Cultural, and Ethnic Genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China / Abduweli Ayup, Shungqar Tékin and Erkin Sidick -- Linguistic Human Rights in Kurdistan / Jaffer Sheyholislami -- The Linguistic Human Rights Plight of Hungarians in Ukraine / István Csernicskó and Miklós Kontra -- A tale of two springs and an impending winter : linguistic Human Rights and the Politics of Dignity in North Africa / Ahmed Kabel -- English linguistic imperialism and mother tongue medium education in Ethiopia / Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes -- Judicial interpretations of the Law to Safeguard Linguistic Minorities in India / E. Annamalai -- Linguistic human rights and higher education : reflections from India / Shivani Nag -- Language matters for development, peace, and reconciliation : the Case for Change in Haiti / Dominique Dupuy -- Romani emancipation and linguistic human rights / Dieter W. Halwachs -- Finnish and Swedish as National Languages of Finland : a linguistic human rights success story : why and how? / Markku Suksi -- When implementation of linguistic human rights does not match legislation : the case of Sweden / Jarmo Lainio -- Court challenges and linguistic human rights : the Canadian Case / Pierre Foucher -- Linguistic human rights of Indigenous Sámi in the Finnish education system / Ulla Aikio-Puoskari, Gáppe Piera Jovnna Ulla -- Time of promise in Latin America : linguistic human rights from within language communities / Gabriela Pérez Báez and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil -- Pueblo revitalisation in education in Southwest USA / Christine Sims -- Language endangerment and linguistic human rights of a cross-border minority : Karelian in Russia and Finland / Anneli Sarhimaa -- Linguistic human rights in Russia / Janne Saarikivi -- Challenges in the acknowledgement and implementation of linguistic Human Rights in Nepal / Lava Deo Awasthi, Mark Turin and Yogendra Prasad Yadava -- Linguistic Human Rights in Education in India : Odisha's partial success story / Ajit Mohanty -- Māori revitalisation in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Richard Benton -- The history of linguistic human rights at Gallaudet University / Awny Holmes Hlibok and Laurene E. Simms -- The role of interpreting and translation in promoting linguistic human rights / Gabriel González Núñez -- Language testing/assessment and linguistic human rights / Elana Shohamy -- Promoting linguistic human rights through language documentation / M. Paul Lewis -- Linguistic human rights, living tongues institute for endangered languages, and the rise of the multilingual internet / Gregory D. S. Anderson and Anna Luisa Daigneault -- Disaster linguicism as deprivation of the victims' linguistic human rights / Shinya Uekusa and Steve Matthewman.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights is the first Handbook-length resource in the field of language rights and linguistic human rights. Bringing together key research in the area from around the globe, six sections offer an exploration of multidisciplinary theory and practice: General Issues; Language Human Rights (LHRs) in the policies ; of official or global institutions, Suppression of LHRs; Issues of access, procedure and implementation; LHRs and Documenting endangered languages; and finally Successful experience of recognising and implementing LHRs policies. Authored by a prominent team of international experts in their respective fields and geographical areas, the individual chapters of the Handbook are masterfully brought together by the highly qualified editorial team of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson. The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights is written so that it is accessible to a wide audience of researchers and students of linguistics, applied linguistics and multilingual education, as well as multidisciplinary areas of education, law, political theory, sociology, cultural studies, minority studies, and anthropology"--