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Linguistic Human Rights:
A Sociolinguistic Introduction
Dept. of Language & Linguistics
Issues of language rights have become
increasingly prominent in the last decade, and are often raised in the context
of more general human rights. Linguists have become involved in this area via
diverse pathways – e.g., language endangerment, preservation and
revitalization; language planning; forensic (=legal) linguistics; bilingual
education and other school-centered language issues;
action research with urban linguistic minorities; work with indigenous peoples,
including land claims; refugee and asylum issues, and more.
This site reflects my own recent
involvement in linguistic rights. I welcome involvement from many perspectives
and hope you will send me messages of support and disagreement, materials,
links, corrections, etc. Please send them to username patrickp
at my email address @essex.ac.uk.
§ Why
Sociolinguistics and Human Rights?
§
(What) Can
Linguistics Contribute to Human Rights?
§ Sociolinguistic
typology and language rights
§ Linguistic
Perspectives on some Human Rights Issues
§ English-Only
Rules and Cases in the US Workplace
§ Language analysis
and national origin in refugee/asylum cases, including now updated at LARG
§
Resolutions and
publications ▪
List of endorsing
organisations
§ Syllabus for an
introductory lecture on Language and Human Rights (HU901)
§ Syllabus for a new
course on Language Rights (LG 474) to run again in Jan 2012
§
The Annual
Lecture on Language and Human Rights at Essex 9th
annual lecture, 12 Oct 2011
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Appendix:10 Sociolinguistic
Axioms
Last revised 7 October
2011