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Linguistic Human Rights:

A Sociolinguistic Introduction

 by Prof. Peter. L Patrick

Dept. of Language & Linguistics

University of Essex

 

References

o        Phil Benson, Peter Grundy & Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. 1998. Language rights (special issue). Language Sciences 20(1).

o        Blommaert, Jan, & Jef Verschueren. 1998. Debating diversity: analysing the discourse of tolerance. London: Routledge.

o        Blommaert, Jan ed. 1999. Language ideological debates. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.

o        Blommaert, Jan. 2001. Investigating narrative inequality: African asylum seekers' stories in Belgium. Discourse & Society 12/4: 413-449.

o        Blommaert, Jan. 2001. The Asmara Declaration as a sociolinguistic problem: Notes on scholarship and linguistic rights. Journal of Sociolinguistics 5/1: 131-142.

o        Branson, Jan, & Don Miller. 1998. Nationalism and the linguistic rights of Deaf communities: Linguistic imperialism and the recognition and development of sign languages. Journal of Sociolinguistics 2(1): 3-34.

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o        Crawford, James. 1992. Language Loyalties. University of Chicago Press.

o        Crawford, James. 2000. At War with Diversity: U.S. Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety. Multilingual Matters. online

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o        Kibbee, Douglas, ed. 1998 Language legislation and linguistic rights. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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o        Labov, William. 1982. "Objectivity and commitment in linguistic science: The case of the Black English trial in Ann Arbor." Language in Society 11: 165-201.

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o        Linguistic Society of America. 1995. Committee on Social & Political Concerns: Statement on Language Rights.

o        Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1994 "Accent, standard language ideology and discriminatory pretext in the courts", Language in Society 23(2): 163-98.

o        Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1997. English with an accent. Chapter 7, "Language ideology in the workplace and the judicial system".

o        Macías, Reynaldo F. 1979. “Language choice and human rights in the United States.” In James E. Alatis & G. Richard Tucker, eds., Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1979: Language in Public Life, 86-101. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

o        Maryns, Katrijn & Jan Blommaert. 2001 "Linguistic and thematic shifting as a narrative resource: assessing asylum seekers' repertoires". Multilingua.

o        Matsuda, Mari J. 1991. "Voice of America: Accent, antidiscrimination law, and a jurisprudence for the last Reconstruction." Yale Law Joumal 100: 1329-1407.

o        Patrick, Peter L. 2002. “The speech community.” In JK Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes, eds., Handbook on Language Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. (online)

o        Paulston, Christina Bratt. 1994. Linguistic minorities in multilingual settings: Implications for language policies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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o        Schiffman, Harold F. 1996.  Linguistic Culture and Language Policy. Routledge.

o        Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, & Robert Phillipson, eds. 1994  Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming linguistic discrimination. The Hague: Mouton.

o        Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove. In progress. Multilingualism and Linguistic human rights bibliography. Terralingua: online.

o        Trudgill, Peter. 2002. Linguistic and Social Typology. In JK Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes, eds., Handbook on Language Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell.

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o        de Varennes, Fernand. 1996. Language, Minorities and Human Rights. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

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o        Wurm, Stephen. 2001. Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing. UNESCO. info

Special online resource:

o       Terralingua online bibliography on Multilingualism and Linguistic Human Rights, by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.

·        Entries in Catalan, Danish, English (most), Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish and other languages.

·        Hosted by Terralinguamembership is free.

·        Oddly organised: first page brings up entries alphabetised by author A-C, in url listed as “http://www.terralingua.org/Bibliographies/ToveBibA_C.html”; for subsequent pages, easiest access is to substitute the following letters into the URL, producing e.g. “http://www.terralingua.org/Bibliographies/ToveBibD_F.html

·                   A_C

·                   D_F

·                   G_I

·                   J_L

·                   M_O

·                   P_R

·                   S_T

·                   U_Z

·        For more references to the editor’s own work, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, see her homepage: http://akira.ruc.dk/~tovesk/

 

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