34.12, Books: The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights: Skutnabb-Kangas, Phillipson (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:05:14
From: Aleksandra Tasic [atasic at wiley.com]
Subject: The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights: Skutnabb-Kangas, Phillipson (eds.)

 


Title: The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights 
Series Title: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Wiley
	   http://www.wiley.com
	

Book URL: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Handbook+of+Linguistic+Human+Rights-p-9781119753841 


Editor: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Editor: Robert Phillipson

Electronic: ISBN:  9781119753902 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 156.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781119753841 Pages: 736 Price: U.S. $ 195.00


Abstract:

A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human
rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the struggles of
many peoples and communities

The first book of its kind, the Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights presents a
diverse range of theoretically grounded studies of linguistic human rights,
exemplifying what linguistic justice is and how it might be achieved. Through
explorations of ways in which linguistic human rights are understood in both
national and international contexts, this innovative volume demonstrates how
linguistic human rights are supported or violated on all continents, with a
particular focus on the marginalized languages of minorities and Indigenous
peoples, in industrialized countries and the Global South.

Organized into five parts, this volume first presents approaches to linguistic
human rights in international and national law, political theory, sociology,
economics, history, education, and critical theory. Subsequent sections
address how international standards are promoted or impeded and cross-cutting
issues, including translation and interpreting, endangered languages and the
internet, the impact of global English, language testing, disaster situations,
historical amnesia, and more. This essential reference work:

Explores approaches to linguistic human rights in countries of great
demographic diversity and conflict
Covers cases of linguistic human rights in the Americas, China, Europe, North
Africa, India, Nepal and New Zealand, including international minorities, such
as the Kurds and the Roma, and the Deaf worldwide.
Illustrates how education worldwide has often blocked off minority languages
by not offering mother-tongue medium education
Presents and assesses conventions, declarations, and recommendations that
recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples and minorities.
Includes a selection of short texts that present additional existential
evidence of linguistic human rights.
Edited by two renowned leaders in the field, the Handbook of Linguistic Human
Rights is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of
language and law, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy,
language education, indigenous studies, language rights, human rights, and
globalization.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=166573




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