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Overview
Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education brings together cutting-edge scholarship in language, education, and society from all parts of the world. Celebrating the 60th birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, it is inspired by her work in minority, indigenous, and immigrant education; multilingualism; linguistic human rights; and global language and power issues. Rights to Language situates issues of minorities and bilingual education in broader perspectives of human rights, power, and the ecology of language. The rich mix of papers serves to underline that the issues are comparable worldwide, that many disparate topics can cross-fertilize each other, and that our understanding of the issues can benefit from coverage that is global, reflective, and committed.
A Web site with additional resource materials to this book can be found on http://www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson/
Synopsis
A large representation of international contributors in areas such as the sociology of education, law, and language; bilingual education; sociolinguistics; economics and language; linguistics; sign language; racism; communication; discourse analysis; language policy; minority issues; and language pedagogy; situate issues of minorities and bilingual education in broader perspectives of human rights, power, and the ecology of language. The volume explores how language rights are formulated and implemented, how speakers of languages can be treated more equitably, and how multilingualism can be promoted, specifically in education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR