Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination

by Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Robert Phillipson

Only a few hundred of the world's 6,000-7,000 languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This book describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why, and suggests which linguistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110148781
• ISBN13: 9783110148787
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary