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  • Linguistic Human Rights and English in Europe

    Linguistic Human Rights and English in Europe

    This paper looks at policies of linguistic expansion worldwide, in particular at English in the colonial and post-colonial periods. It addresses the issue of whether the expansion of English in continental Europe represents a threat or a blessing.

    by Robert Philippson, Tove Skuttnab-Kangs
    2008

  • Cultural Rights and World Trade Agreements in the Information Society

    Cultural Rights and World Trade Agreements in the Information Society

    This article argues that the cultural problem of the Information Society can be defined in terms of conditions determining the production, distribution and access to expression. The conceptualization of culture and cultural rights is explored by organizing cultural debates into three models, with a critical common ground then identified in each regarding the significance of the concern for expression.

    by Shalini Venturelli
    2008

  • The Nature of Language Rights

    The Nature of Language Rights

    This article argues that the general assimilation or equation between language rights and human rights leads to a distorted image of the relationship between law and politics. 

    by Xabier Arzoz
    2007

  • Language rights: Moving the debate forward

    Language rights: Moving the debate forward

    An overview of the current issues and challenges facing the nascent paradigm of minority language rights.
    by Stephen May
    2005

  • Democratic Citizenship, Languages, Diversity and Human Rights

    Democratic Citizenship, Languages, Diversity and Human Rights

    Influential factors in the organisation and sociolinguistic foundations of language teaching and in the linguistic ideologies at work in problems related to the languages of Europe. 
    by Hugh Starkey
    2002

  • Language Rights in a Plural Society: Community versus the State

    Language Rights in a Plural Society: Community versus the State

    A critical review of the phenomena of language rights being essentially cultural, fulfilling the human urge of gratification to a particular heritage. This article pleads for generating awareness among speech communities to articulate communication rights on a broader canvas transcending political and bureaucratic institutions.

    by Lachman M. Khubchandani
    2002

  • Language policy, language education, language rights: Indigenous, immigrant, and international perspectives

    Language policy, language education, language rights: Indigenous, immigrant, and international perspectives

    This article offers evidence that language policy and language education serve as vehicles for promoting the vitality, versatility, and stability of indigenous languages, and ultimately promote the rights of their speakers to participate in the global community on and in their own terms.
    by Nancy H. Hornberger
    1998

  • Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights

    Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights

    In 1996 the Assembly of Participants at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights meeting in Barcelona, Spain, approved the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights.

    by World Conference on Linguistic Rights
    1998

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Communication rights enable all people everywhere to express themselves individually and collectively by all means of communication. They are vital to full participation in society and are, therefore, universal human rights belonging to every man, woman, and child.

 

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