Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights

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 (LHRs) in all key scholarly disciplines
* Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of international law Covenants and Declarations that recognize the LHRs of Indigenous peoples, minorities and other minoritized groups
* Presents evidence of how LHRs are being violated on all continents, and evidence of successful struggles for achieving linguistic human rights and linguistic justice
* Stresses the importance of the mother tongues of Indigenous peoples and minorities being the main teaching/learning languages for cultural identity, success in education, and social integration
* Includes a selection of short texts that present additional existential evidence of LHRs
 
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.

Table des matières

Acknowledgements ix
 
Abbreviations xi
 
Notes on Contributors xv
 
1 Introduction: Establishing Linguistic Human Rights 1
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson
 
Part I Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights 23
 
2 Linguistic Human Rights in International Law 25
Robert Dunbar
 
3 Sociolinguistic and Political Theory Perspectives on Language Rights 39
Stephen May
 
4 Linguistic and Epistemic Erasure in Africa: Coloniality, Linguistic Human Rights and Decoloniality 55
Kathleen Heugh
 
5 Struggling to Access Health Information in the Midst of a Pandemic: Linguistic Human Rights in Indonesia 71
Hywel Coleman and David Fero
 
6 Economic and Policy Issues in the Promotion of Linguistic Human Rights 95
François Grin
 
7 Preventing the Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights in Education 109
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
 
8 Debating Linguistic Human Rights in Militarised Myanmar: Political Agitation and Policy Deliberation 127
Joseph Lo Bianco
 
9 Language Policy Implications of 'Global' English for Linguistic Human Rights 143
Robert Phillipson
 
10 From Neoliberal to Decolonial Language Rights and Reparative Linguistic Justice 159
Ahmed Kabel
 
Part II International Standards for Linguistic Human Rights 175
 
11 Some Shortcomings of Linguistic Rights 177
Gudmundur Alfredsson
 
12 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues 183
Fernand de Varennes
 
13 Time, Politics, and Linguistic Human Rights: Bringing Words to our Songs 195
Elsa Stamatopoulou
 
14 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 211
Ole Henrik Magga
 
15 Linguistic Human Rights in Relation to the Administration of Justice: A European Perspective 227
Kristin Henrard
 
16 Using the UN Human Rights Treaty System to Defend LHRs 235
Andrea Bear Nicholas, Lorena Fontaine, Amos Key, Jr and Karihwakéron Tim Thompson
 
17 The Bangkok Statement on Language and Inclusion: A Rose by Any Other Name? 251
Kirk R. Person
 
18 Linguistic Human Rights in the Work of the World Federation of the Deaf 267
Victoria Manning, Joseph J. Murray and Alexandre Bloxs
 
Part III Case Studies: Linguistic Human Rights Violated 281
 
19 Resistance to the Violations of Linguistic Human Rights in Nunavut, Canada 283
Aluki Kotierk
 
20 Linguicide and Historicide 295
Andrea Bear Nicholas
 
21 Linguistic Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples in the USA 303
Jon Reyhner
 
22 Linguistic Human Rights of Minorities in China 319
Minglang Zhou
 
23 Linguistic Human Rights in Tibet: Advocacy and Denial 327
Gerald Roche
 
24 Linguistic, Cultural, and Ethnic Genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China 341
Abduweli Ayup, Shungqar Tékin and Erkin Sidick
 
25 Linguistic Human Rights in Kurdistan 357
Jaffer Sheyholislami
 
26 The Linguistic Human Rights Plight of Hungarians in Ukraine 373
István Csernicskó and Miklós Kontra
 
27 A Tale of Two Springs and an Impending Winter: Linguistic Human Rights and the Politics of Dignity in North Africa 383
Ahmed Kabel
 
28 English Linguistic Imperialism and Mother Tongue Medium Education in Ethiopia 393
Yirga G. Woldeyes
 
29 Judicial Interpretations of the Law to Safeguard Linguistic Minorities in India 405
E. Annamalai
 
30 Linguistic Human Rights and Higher Education: Reflections from India 413
Shivani Nag
 
31 Language Matters for Development, Peace, and Reconciliation: The Case for Change in Haiti 427
Dominique Dupuy
 
32 Romani Emancipation and Linguistic Human Rights 431
Dieter W. Halw

A propos de l'auteur

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940-2023) was Adjunct Professor Emerita at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research focused on linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, mother-tongue-based multilingual education, the subtractive spread of English, revitalization of Indigenous languages, and the relationship between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity. She was the (co-)author or editor of some 50 books and over 400 scientific articles. She was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax Prize in 2003.
Robert Phillipson is Professor Emeritus at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research focuses on the role of English worldwide, language policy, linguistic justice, language pedagogy, and multilingualism. He co-edited the four-volume Language Rights with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. His most influential books are Linguistic Imperialism, Linguistic Imperialism Continued, and English-only Europe? Challenging Language Policy. He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax Prize in 2010.

Commentaire

"Compelling testament to the urgency of ensuring linguistic human rights worldwide and to Skutnabb-Kangas' and Phillipson's vision and tenacity in illuminating the field for half a century."
 
Nancy H. Hornberger, Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania
 

"Our ability to communicate through language is central to our constitution, evolution, and identity as humans. It is therefore not surprising that this core characteristic of who we are has always been contested as social groups vie for advantage and superiority. The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights brilliantly brings these realities into the 21st century, combining academic analysis, personal accounts, and evidence-based directions for change. The authors have created a repository of information and inspiration that will fuel language activism for many years to come."
 
Jim Cummins, Professor, The University of Toronto
 

"This impressive and engaging edited Handbook is not only global in coverage and truly comprehensive in scope, it also introduces and formulates the concept linguistic human rights through state-of-the-art theoretical, legal and conceptual discussions. National and thematic examples of violations or good implementation are rounded out by evidence statements on some of humanity's most discerning linguistic identity violations."
 
Tove H. Malloy, Professor of European Studies, Europa-Universität Flensburg
 

"An extraordinarily multifaceted handbook, covering theory and implementation, opportunities and obstacles, global and local perspectives, voices of academics and practitioners. It demonstrates why paying due attention to the - still too often neglected - linguistic dimension of human rights is so crucial for a world in which no one will be left behind."
 
Goro Christoph Kimura, Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo
 
"The handbook is exceptionally valuable for understanding and appreciating the concept of linguistic human rights and their significance for social and linguistic justice. It is well organised, illuminating and highly interesting in its entirety. It can therefore be warmly recommended not only to lawyers and students of law, but to all those interested in the protection of linguistic rights of all people and some form of linguistic justice."
 
Marijana Javornik Fubric, Professor, Zagreb University

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Tove Phillipson Skutnabb-Kangas
• Collaboration: Phillipson (Editeur), Robert Phillipson (Editeur), Phillipson Robert (Editeur), Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Editeur), Skutnabb-Kangas Tove (Editeur)
• Edition: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781119753841
• ISBN: 978-1-119-75384-1
• Pages: 736
• Thème: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Dictionnaire, ouvrages de référence > Dictionnaires de langues étrangères; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature; Menschenrechte, Angewandte Linguistik, Linguistics, Sprachwissenschaften, Applied Linguistics, Spezialthemen Sprachwissenschaften, Linguistics Special Topics