Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (228 p.)
Disciplina	306.44/9
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Political aspects Language and culture - Political aspects Identity politics Intercultural communication Sociolinguistics
ISBN	1-78238-943-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Language and the Rise of Identity Politics: An Introduction; Part I - Language and Identity Politics: Theory and Concepts; Chapter 1 - Language and Collective Identity: Theorizing Complexity; Chapter 2 - The Politics of Linguistic Identity in Europe: Between the Expression of Power and the Power of Expressivity; Part II - Language and Collective Identity in Multilingual States; Chapter 3 - Language and Identity Politics in Belgium; Chapter 4 - Plurilingualism and Identity Politics: The Case of Switzerland Chapter 5 - Languages and Collective Identities in Switzerland: The Case of Bilingual Cantons (Bern, Fribourg, Valais)Chapter 6 - Language Rights and Language Endangerment in Canada: The Case of Indigenous Languages; Part III - Language and Identity Politics in Immigration Societies; Chapter 7 - Immigrants and the Reframing of Language and National Identity Politics in the United States; Chapter 8 - Challenges of Diversity: Language and Immigration in Switzerland Chapter 9 - Language and the Transformation of Identity Politics in Minority Francophone Communities in Canada: Between Collective Linguistic Identity and Individualistic Integration PoliciesThe Problematic Nexus of Language and Identity: Some Concluding Remarks; Index
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Autore	May Stephen <1962-, >
Edizione	[2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
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.
ISBN	1-283-58941-9 9786613901866 1-136-83707-8 0-203-83254-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451727503321

Autore	Yu Xing
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham : , : University Press of America, Inc., , [2013]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (460 p.)
Disciplina	306.44/9
Soggetto topico	Language policy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-7618-6201-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	part one. Language and state formation -- part two. Language and state governance -- part three. Language and state spirit.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463255103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamin Pub. Co., c1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (431 p.)
Disciplina	306.44/9
Altri autori (Persone)	KibbeeDouglas A
Collana	Impact, studies in language and society
Soggetto topico	Language policy Language and languages - Law and legislation Linguistic minorities - Civil rights
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-32767-8 9786613327673 90-272-7507-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	LANGUAGE LEGISLATION AND LINGUISTIC RIGHTS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Presentation: Realism and Idealism in Language Conflicts and Their Resolution; Legaland Linguistic Perspectives on Language Legislation; 1. Introduction.; 2. Application of the law in matters relating to education; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1 Bilingual education; 3. Application of the law in matters relating to language in the workplace; 3.1 The language of work; 3.2 Accent discrimination.; 4. Application of the law in matters relating to criminal and civil justice 4.2 Right to serve on juries.5. Application of the law in matters relating to commerce; 5.1 Adequacy of warning.; 5.2 Contracts; 5.3 Public signs; 6. Legal and linguistic issues; 6.1 Legal Issues; 6.2 Linguistic issues; 7. Conclusions; Notes; The Linguistic Rights of Non-English Speaking Suspects, Witnesses, Victims and Defendants; Great Mischiefs-An Historical Look at Language Legislation in Great Britain; 1. English Only legislation in Britain; 2. The Vernacular and the Law; 3. Quality control, or misprision and mistranslation; 4. Imperfect Englishmen?; 5. Legislative reverberations; Notes The Criminalization of Spanish in the United StatesTowards Consensus? Standard English in the NationalCurriculum; 1. Introduction; 2. A policy context: English in the national curriculum; 3. Educational definitions of standard English; 4. Sociolinguistics and standard English in the English curriculum; 5. A critical response?; Beyond an Anglo-Saxon Confederation: the Clash ofWorld Hegemonies in the Language Ideologies ofArthur Balfour and Woodrow Wilson; 1. Introduction; 2. Balfour and the Anglo-Saxon Confederation; 3. Wilson and the Taylorization of America 4. Language and the nation-state after U.S. hegemonyNotes; Anatomy of the English-Only Movement: Social and Ideological Sources of Language Restrictionism in theUnited States; 1. Introduction; 2. The English-only debate; 3. Historic patterns of language conflict; 3.1 Pennsylvania Germans.; 3.2 Louisianans; 3.3 Californios.; 3.4 American Indians; 3.5 Puerto Ricans; 3.6 Native Hawaiians; 3.7 European immigrants.; 4. Sources of the modern English-only movement; 5. Language rights and class warfare; Notes The Courts, the Legislature and Society: The Shaping of Federal Language Policy in the United States1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Litigation and Policy Development; 4. The 1974 Reauthorization: A change in policy; 5. The 1978 Reauthorization: The effects of the AIR study; 6. The 1984 Reauthorization: flexibility and new directions; 7. The 1988 Reauthorization: politics vs. research; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Language Rights Arguments in Central Europe and the USA : How Similar Are They?; 1. Introductory Caveats; 2. Method; 3. Similar Arguments 3.1. The Right to Be Free from Discrimination Based on Language
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457696703321