Language rights : from free speech to linguistic governance / / by Vanessa Pupavac

• Autore: Pupavac Vanessa
• Pubblicazione: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2012.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.443
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic rights; Civil rights
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Contesting Human Rights, Language and Politics; 2 The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Legal Governance of Politics; 3 From Enlightenment Speech to Romantic National Languages; 4 From Romantic Subjectivity to Post-Romantic Cultural Identities and Linguistic Adaptation; 5 Righting Babel? Translation as Cultural Transfusion or Cultural Violence; 6 Linguistic Imperialism, Global English and Modernity ; 7 Anti-Colonial and Post-Independence Language Politics: From Emancipatory Aspirations to Limits8 Language Rights Politics in the Former Yugoslavia and International Therapeutic Governance in Bosnia; 9 Ecolinguistics and Post-Humanist Advocacy; 10 From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance; Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.
• Titolo autorizzato: Language rights
• ISBN: 1-283-64140-2; 1-137-28404-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821031903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities