Language and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of Language - Couverture rigide
Synopsis
This title calls for a reappraisal of the consensus within sociology that dismisses language as an important feature of individual and collective identity. It argues that the cause of many past ethnic movements was the preoccupation of nation states with establishing a common language.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
2008 Choice Academic Outstanding Title Winner!
In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Stephen May argues for a non-essentialist understanding of language rights, while at the same time outlining why language rights, particularly for minority groups, are defensible and important, both academically and politically. May argues that the causes of many of the language-based conflicts in the world today lie with the nation-state and its preoccupation with establishing a 'common' language and culture via mass education. The solution, he suggests, is to rethink nation-states in more culturally and linguistically plural ways while avoiding, at the same time, essentialising the language-identity link.
Language and Minority Rights – a benchmark volume in the field of language rights and language policy – is an outstanding interdisciplinary analysis which draws together debates on language from widely different academic fields, including the sociology of language, ethnicity and nationalism, sociolinguistics, social and political theory, education, history and law, illustrating these debates via a wealth of different national contexts and examples. It is essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy and planning, sociology, politics, and education.
Revue de presse
'This is a fine example of a rich, innovative and pluralistic interpretation of minority language rights and needs the world over.... With this book, cultural democracy arguments take a real step ahead. Bravo!'
Professor Joshua A. Fishman, Stanford University and Yeshiva University. '...presents the basics in the same clear and articulate fashion that characterises the entire book, making it very suitable for use as a textbook in undergraduate studies.'
The Global Review of Ethnopolitics.
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