Language Rights

Language Rights TOC

Surveying Language Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Language Endangerment and Language Ecology

1. Michael Krauss, (1992) The World's languages in crisis, Language 68/1, 4-10.

2. Peter M¼hlh¤usler (2002) The Changing linguistic ecology of the Pacific region. Ch.1 in Linguistic Ecology, 1-21.

3. Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine (2000) Why something should be done. Ch7 in Vanishing Voices, 150-175; 211-212

4. Luisa Maffi (2005) Linguistic, cultural and biological diversity. Annual Review of Anthropology 29, 599-617

5. John Edwards, (2001), The ecology of language revival. Current Issues in Language Planning 2, 2-3, 231-241.

6. Alistair Pennycook (2004) Language policy and the ecological turn, Language Policy 3, 213-239.

Language Rights "Versus" Language Mobility

Sociolinguistics

7. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1998) Human rights and language wrongs â" A future for diversity? Language Sciences 20/1, 5-27.

8. Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1998) English only worldwide or language ecology? TESOL Quarterly 30/3, 429-452.

9. Robert Phillipson (1998) Globalizing English: Are linguistic human rights an alternative to linguistic imperialism? Language Sciences 20/1, 101-112.

10. Janina Brutt-Griffler (2002) Class, ethnicity and language rights: an analysis of British colonial policy. Journal of Language, Identity and Education 1/3, 207-234

11. Stephen May (2005) Language rights: moving the debate forward. Journal of Sociolinguistics 9/3, 319-347

12. Lionel Wee (2010) Language and ethnic minority rights. Ch. 4 in Language without Rights, 48-73

Political Theory

13. Alan Patten (2009) Survey article: The justification of minority language rights. The Journal of Political Philosophy 17/1, 102-128

14. David Laitin and Rob Reich (2003) A liberal democratic approach to language justice. Language Rights and Political Theory, 80-104

15. Daniele Archibugi (2005) The language of democracy: vernacular or Esperanto? A comparison between the multiculturalist and cosmopolitan perspectives. Political Studies 53/3, 537-555.

16. Peter Ives (2010) Cosmopolitanism and global English: language politics in globalisation debates. Political Studies 58/3 516-535.

17. Stephen May (2014) Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia: Rethinking political theory and language policy for a multilingual world. Language Policy 13, 371-393.

Language Rights and the Law

18. Fernand de Varennes (2001) Language rights as an integral part of human rights. International Journal of Multicultural Societies 3/1, 15-25

19. Robert Dunbar (2001) Minority Language rights in international law. International and Comparative Law Quarterly 50/1, 90-120.

20. Stephen May (2011) Language rights: The "Cinderella" human right. Journal of Human Rights 10/3, 265-289.

Language Rights and Education

21. Nancy Hornberger (1998) Language policy, language education, language rights: Indigenous, immigrant and international perspectives. Language in Society 27/4, 439-458.

22. Teresa McCarty (2012) Native American Languages in and out of the safety zone, 1492-2012. Language and Planning Policy in Native America (Multilingual Matters) ch.3, 46-62.

23. Christopher Stroud (2001) African mother-tongue programmes and the politics of language: Linguistic citizenship versus linguistic human rights. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 22/4, 339-355

24. Ajit Mohanty (2006) Multilingualism of the unequals and predicaments of education in India: Mother tongue or other tongue? Ima