Decolonising Multilingualism: Struggles to Decreate - Couverture rigide

Phipps, Alison

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788924053 ISBN 13 : 9781788924054

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2019

Synopsis

This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It comprises 18 studies from communities across Europe, the US, South America, Asia and New Zealand. They set sign language legislation within the national context of language policies in each country and show patterns of intersection between language ideologies, public policy and deaf communities' discourses. Each chapter, grounded in scholarship by deaf scholars, describes a deaf community's expectations and hopes for legal recognition and the type of sign language legislation achieved. The chapters also discuss the strategies used in achieving the passage of the legislation, as well as an account of barriers confronted and surmounted (or not) in the legislative process. It will be of interest to language activists in the fields of sign language and other minority languages, policymakers and researchers in deaf studies, sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, human rights law and applied linguistics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alison Phipps is UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, and Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She writes and publishes widely in both academic publications and the media, and is a respected activist and campaigner for humane treatment for those seeking refuge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788924053
• ISBN 13: 9781788924054
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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