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

ByFrancisca Sanchez

part |2 pages

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

chapter |6 pages

Linguistic and Biological Diversity: The Inextricable Link

ByLuisa Maffi

chapter |5 pages

Rethinking Language Defense

ByJoshua A. Fishman, Gella Schweid Fishman

chapter |7 pages

The Politics of A-political Linguistics: Linguists and Linguicide

ByAmir Hassanpour

chapter |6 pages

Language Emancipation: The Finnish Case

ByAnna-Riitta Lindgren

chapter |2 pages

Linguistic Pluralism: A Point of Departure

ByD. P. Pattanayak

chapter |1 pages

Birch—Wind—Looks Lilja Liukka

chapter |3 pages

Culture, Sharing and Language

ByProbal Dasgupta

chapter |3 pages

‘Spirit of the Earth’

ByConstance M. Beutel

part |2 pages

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

chapter |5 pages

Human Rights: The Next Fifty Years

ByCees Hamelink

chapter |5 pages

Fernand de Varennes

chapter |6 pages

Discourse and Access

ByTeun A. van Dijk

chapter |4 pages

Language Rights for the Language of Norfolk Island

ByPeter Mühlhäusler

chapter |4 pages

Ina Druviete

chapter |5 pages

Use of Language Rights by Minorities

ByE. Annamalai

chapter |3 pages

(Un)Writing the Margins: Steps Toward an Ecology of Language

ByMark Fettes

part |2 pages

Part III. Equity: Justice for Speakers of All Languages

chapter |5 pages

Writing for Diversity

ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o

chapter |9 pages

On the Financing of Language Policies and Distributive Justice

ByFrançois Grin, François Vaillancourt

chapter |5 pages

Science and Policy—When does Science Matter?

ByIngegerd Municio-Larsson

chapter |8 pages

From Historical Shame to Present Struggle

ByJarmo Lainio

chapter |4 pages

Which Contacts Breed Conflicts?

ByMiklós Kontra

chapter |5 pages

Exclusion as Discursive Practice and the Politics of Identity

ByMustafa Hussain

part |2 pages

Part IV. Power: Policies for Multilingualism

chapter |9 pages

Paradoxes of Plurilingualism. For better? For worse? And Beyond?

ByAngéline Martel

chapter |4 pages

Michael Clyne

chapter |6 pages

Jerzy J.Smolicz and Margaret J.Secombe

chapter |4 pages

Language Policy and Planning in South Africa: Some Insights

ByNeville Alexander

chapter |5 pages

Zubeida Desai

chapter |8 pages

Shelley K.Taylor

chapter |6 pages

Creating a Bilingual Family in a ‘Monolingual’ Country

ByLeena Huss

part |2 pages

Part V. Education: Affirming Diversity, Confirming Rights

chapter |11 pages

The Linguistic Human Rights of Sign Language Users

ByMarkku Jokinen

chapter |5 pages

The Linguistic Problem Child has Many Names

ByPertti Toukomaa

chapter |8 pages

Creating a Successful Minority School

ByMarkku Peura

chapter |5 pages

Giving Good Weight to Multilingualism in South Africa

ByKathleen Heugh

chapter |4 pages

Education for All—In Whose Language?

ByBirgit Brock-Utne

chapter |6 pages

Language: A Diversity Category Beyond All Others

ByOfelia García

chapter |10 pages

Jim Cummins

chapter |5 pages

Dual Language Models and Intergenerational Inspirations

ByDawn Wink, Joan Wink

chapter |15 pages

Robert Phillipson

chapter |10 pages

Contributors