Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. I-VI I
2. Introduction 1
3. I THE SCOPE OF LINGUISTIC HUMAN RIGHTS
4. Section introduction 25
5. Combining immigrant and autochthonous language rights: a territorial approach to multilingualism 31
6. On the limits of ethnolinguistic democracy 49
7. Linguistic human rights and educational policy in Russia 63
8. Linguistic human rights, past and present 71
9. Typology of language legislation 111
10. Personal names and human rights 121
11. II COUNTRY STUDIES: TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT
12. Section introduction 135
13. Language policy in the United States: a history of cultural genocide 141
14. The discourse of disinformation: the debate on bilingual education and language rights in the United States 159
15. Beyond linguistic policy: the Soviet Union versus Estonia 179
16. Māori language rights in New Zealand 209
17. The Sámi Language Act 219
18. Australia's language policies and minority rights: a core value perspective 235
19. Combating educational disadvantage among Lebanese Australian children 253
20. III POST-COLONIAL DILEMMAS AND STRUGGLES
21. Section introduction 265
22. Indigenous education in Latin America: policies and legal frameworks 271
23. Linguistic rights for Amerindian peoples in Latin America 289
24. “Minority” cultures and their communication rights 305
25. Kashmiri, a majority-minority language: an exploratory essay 317
26. Language rights in postcolonial Africa 335
27. Killing a mother tongue – how the Kurds are deprived of linguistic human rights 347
28. Appendix: Extracts from selected UN and regional documents covering linguistic human rights, proposals for such and resolutions on language rights 371
29. Consolidated bibliography 413
30. Notes on contributors 455
31. Language index 459
32. Person index 462
33. Subject index 468