Language and minority rights : ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language / / Stephen May |
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 |
May Stephen <1962-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language and minority rights : ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language / / Stephen May |
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 |
ISBN |
1-136-83706-X
1-283-58941-9 9786613901866 1-136-83707-8 0-203-83254-X |
Classificazione | EDU005000EDU020000FOR007000 |
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-9910779043103321 |
May Stephen <1962-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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