6.1341, Sum: Linguistic Human Rights

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1341. Mon Oct 2 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  127
 
Subject: 6.1341, Sum: Linguistic Human Rights
 
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Date:  Sat, 30 Sep 1995 18:13:45 +0200
From:  shimizu at let.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Subject:  SUM: Linguistic Human Rights
 
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Date:  Sat, 30 Sep 1995 18:13:45 +0200
From:  shimizu at let.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Subject:  SUM: Linguistic Human Rights
 
     Dear Linguists!
 
     Thank you very much for your responces to the query from my student
     Ono Aine. I am hereby sending her first summary over the Linguistic
     Human Rights.
     The expression "Linguistic Human Rights" is , by the way, a bit
     disturbing. Is "Liguistic Rights" a better term?
 
     She says she needs more information. Please address any further mail
     directly to me:
     shimizu at let.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
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     Hi, everybody!
     To my query about Linguistic Human Rights the following people kindly
     responded so far. I am very grateful to all of them:
 
     Hartmut Haberland,
     Alex Housen
     John C. Maher,
     Jelly Julia de Jong,
     Milton Azevedo,
     Adams Bodomo,
     Steve Seegmiller,
 
     1. Books
      Hartmut Haberland introduced the following books on this topic:
 
     1) Linguistic Human Rights : overcoming linguictic discrimination /
     edited by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, in collaboration
     with Mart Rannut
 
     2)Linguistic imperialism / Robert Phillipson
 
     In addition, a brand new working paper by Robert Phillipson and
     Skutnabb-Kangas is to apper.
 
     Skutnabb-Kangas is the person Alex Housen recommends as a specialist
     in this area.
 
     And John C. Maher also introdduced his books:
     1) Nihon no Bairingaru .  [Bilingualism in Japan]. (Ed. with Kyoko
     Yashiro). (In Japanese).
 
     2) Atarashii Nihonkan, Sekaikan ni mukatte: Nihon ni okeru Gengo to
     Bunka no Tayosei. [Towards a New Order: [Ed. with Nobuyuki Honna) (In
     Japanese).
 
     3)  Cultures and Voices of Japan: Studies on Diversity [Ed. with
     Gaynor Macdonald].
 
     4)  Special Issue on Japan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
     Development, (ed. with Kyoko Yashiro). Vol.16.5.
 
 
     2. Conference
     Jelly Julia de Jong informed me that an international conference on
     language rights is to be held in June 1996 in Hong Kong.
 
 
     3. Situations in various parts of the world
     Brazil: Milton Azevedo introduced Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos,
     University of Pernambuco.
 
     Africa from Adams Bodomo:
     Althogh he believes that every child should have a right to have
     education in his/her mother-tongue, almost 90 per cent of adults
     cannot fully get benefits as citizens, because foreign languages such
     as English and French, which are former colonial languages, are still
     dominant in Africa. He insists that the ideals like rights to a
     democratic communication and free flow of imformation can only be
     fulfilled by the mother-tongue.
 
     We can even subscribe to the list, languages-l to discuss the attempts
      in U.S. Congress to pass a law making English the official language of
      the U.S. Steve Seegmiller says that to subscribe to this list, we can
      send a message to: majordomo at coombs.anu.edu.au.
 
 
     I really appreciate the offer of such helpful information. But
     my dissertation is supposed to cover more or less all areas of the
     world. So some more information on the following areas is needed:
 
     South America,
     countries which has newly become independent from the USSR(?),
     EU countries,
     Eastern Europe,
     some more parts of Africa,
     China,
     India and Pakistan,
     Australis and New Zealand.
 
     Any further offer of information will be really appreciated.
     Thank you very much.
     Aine Ono
 
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