ABSTRACT

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 https://www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson/

chapter |4 pages

Contents

chapter |2 pages

Preface

chapter |2 pages

Acknowledgements

chapter |2 pages

Tove

part |2 pages

Part I. Language: Its Diversity, its Study, and our Understandings of it

chapter |1 pages

Birch—Wind—Looks Lilja Liukka

chapter |3 pages

Culture, Sharing and Language

chapter |3 pages

‘Spirit of the Earth’

part |2 pages

Part II. Rights: Language Rights, their Articulation and Implementation

part |2 pages

Part III. Equity: Justice for Speakers of All Languages

chapter |5 pages

Writing for Diversity

part |2 pages

Part IV. Power: Policies for Multilingualism

part |2 pages

Part V. Education: Affirming Diversity, Confirming Rights

chapter |10 pages

Jim Cummins

chapter |15 pages

Robert Phillipson

chapter |10 pages

Contributors