Language and minority rights : ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language / / Stephen May

• Autore: May Stephen <1962-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44/9; 306.449
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Political aspects; Linguistic minorities; Ethnicity; Nationalism; Sociolinguistics; Language and education
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-410) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: LANGUAGE AND MINORITY RIGHTS ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM AND THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Introduction; Language ecology; The politics of language; The nation-state model; Linguistic human rights; Critical sociolinguistics; Overview; Prospects for change; 1 The denunciation of ethnicity; Academic denunciations of ethnicity; Resituating ethnicity in the era of globalization; Ethnicity and modernity; Ethnicity as primordial; Ethnicity as constructed; Ethnicity as intentional ; Hybridity: the postmodernist politics of identityLimits to the social construction of ethnicity; Finding common ground - ethnicity, habitus and field; Ethnies; 2 Nationalism and its discontents; Terminology; Linguistic nationalism; The will to nationhood; The modern (nation-)state; The modernists; Limits of the modernist account; Ethno-symbolic accounts of nationalism; Dominant ethnies; The construction of sociological minorities; 3 Liberalism and multiculturalism; The pluralist dilemma; Defending liberal democracy; Critiquing liberal democracy; The cosmopolitan alternative ; Rethinking liberal democracy4 Language, identity, rights and representation; Language and identity; Identity in language; Language and culture; Language, culture and politics; Language decline: the death of Irish?; 'Resigned language realism': is language revival just flogging a dead horse?; Re-evaluating language shift; Linguistic markets and symbolic violence; Vive la France: the construction of la langue légitime; Legitimating and institutionalizing minority languages; 5 Language, education and minority rights; Educating for the majority; Educating for the minority ; Minority group responses to language education policiesBridging the gap between policy and practice; Minority language and education rights in international law; 6 Monolingualism, mobility and the pre-eminence of English; English as global lingua franca; The normative power of monolingualism; The problem with history; The problem with instrumentalism; The problem with bilingual education; 'Doesn't anyone speak English around here?' The US 'English Only' movement; 7 The rise of regionalism: reinstating minority languages; Quebec: safeguarding French in a sea of English ; Catalonia: the quest for political and linguistic autonomyWales: the development of a bilingual state in a 'forgotten' nation; 8 Indigenous rights: self-determination, language and education; Indigenous peoples, self-determination and international law; Indigenous peoples and national law; Indigenous language and education rights; Aotearoa/New Zealand: a tale of two ethnicities; 9 Reimagining the nation-state; Addressing constructionism; Tolerability and the crux of majority opinion; Polyethnic language and education rights; The challenge of multiculturalism ; Toward a more pluralist conception of language rights
• Sommario/riassunto: "The first edition of Language and Minority Rights, an outstanding interdisciplinary analysis of the questions and issues concerning minority language rights in modern nation-states, is now regarded as a key benchmark in the field of language rights and language policy. Its core arguments have shaped the discussion of language rights over the last decade. This new edition substantially revises and updates this provocative and groundbreaking book, addressing new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial publication, including the burgeoning influence of globalization and the relentless rise of English as the current world language. Stephen May's broad position, however, remains largely unchanged. He argues that the causes of many of the language-based conflicts in the world today still lie with the nation-state and its preoccupation with establishing a 'common' language and culture via mass education. The solution, he suggests, is to rethink nation-states in more culturally and linguistically plural ways while avoiding, at the same time, essentializing the language-identity link. This new edition, like the first, adopts a wide interdisciplinary framework, drawing on sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, political theory, education and law"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Language and minority rights
• ISBN: 1-283-58941-9; 9786613901866; 1-136-83707-8; 0-203-83254-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451727503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II