Language Rights
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Language Rights

From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance

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eBook - PDF

Language Rights

From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance

About this book

Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. 1 Contesting Human Rights, Language and Politics
  9. 2 The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Legal Governance of Politics
  10. 3 From Enlightenment Speech to Romantic National Languages
  11. 4 From Romantic Subjectivity to Post-Romantic Cultural Identities and Linguistic Adaptation
  12. 5 Righting Babel? Translation as Cultural Transfusion or Cultural Violence
  13. 6 Linguistic Imperialism, Global English and Modernity
  14. 7 Anti-Colonial and Post-Independence Language Politics: From Emancipatory Aspirations to Limits
  15. 8 Language Rights Politics in the Former Yugoslavia and International Therapeutic Governance in Bosnia
  16. 9 Ecolinguistics and Post-Humanist Advocacy
  17. 10 From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance
  18. Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index