Language Rights

From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4086-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 317 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pupavac, V.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contesting Human Rights, Language, and Politics The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Governance of Politics Enlightenment Speech to Romantic National Languages From Romantic Subjectivity to Post-Romantic Cultural Identities and Linguistic Adaptation Righting Babel? Translation as Cultural Transfusion or Cultural Violence Linguistic Imperialism, Global English and Modernity Anticolonial and Post-Independence Language Politics: From Emancipatory Aspirations to Limits Language Rights Politics in Former Yugoslavia and Therapeutic Cultural Governance in Bosnia Ecolinguistics and Post-Humanist Advocacy From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?

Über Autor(innen)

VANESSA PUPAVAC is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has a background in Slavonic languages and law, and previously worked as a translator for the United Nations. Vanessa's research encompasses international human rights, children's rights, linguistic rights, humanitarian and development politics.