Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education

by Phillipson, Robert; van Dijk, Teun A.; Alexander, Neville; Ammon, Ulrich

• ISBN13: 9780805833461
• ISBN10: 0805833463
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Educationbrings 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 Languagesituates 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 onhttp://www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson/

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(2)
Acknowledgements	7	(2)
Tove	9	(2)
Francisca Sanchez
Part I. Language: Its Diversity, its Study, and our Understandings of it	11	(44)
Such a Treasure of Knowledge for Human Survival	13	(4)
Kerttu Vuolab
Linguistic and Biological Diversity: The Inextricable Link	17	(6)
Luisa Maffi
Rethinking Language Defense	23	(5)
Joshua A. Fishman
Gella Schweid Fishman
Maintaining, Developing and Sharing the Knowledge and Potential Embedded in All Our Languages and Cultures: On linguists as Agents of Epistemic Violence	28	(5)
Jan Branson
Don Miller
The Politics of A-political Linguistics: Linguists and Linguicide	33	(7)
Amir Hassanpour
Language Emancipation: The Finnish Case	40	(6)
Anna-Riitta Lindgren
Linguistic Pluralism: A Point of Departure	46	(2)
D. P. Pattanayak
Birch - Wind - Looks	48	(1)
Lilja Liukka
Culture, Sharing and Language	49	(3)
Probal Dasgupta
`Spirit of the Earth'	52	(3)
Constance M. Beutel
Part II. Rights: Language Rights, their Articulation and Implementation	55	(40)
Language Maintenance as an Arena of Cultural and Political Struggles in a Changing World	57	(5)
Naz Rassool
Human Rights: The Next Fifty Years	62	(5)
Cees Hamelink
Tolerance and Inclusion: The Convergence of Human Rights and the Work of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas	67	(5)
Fernand de Varennes
Unity in Difference - Belonging	72	(1)
Pirkko Leporanta-Morley
Discourse and Access	73	(6)
Teun A. van Dijk
Language Rights for the Language of Norfolk Island	79	(4)
Peter Muhlhausler
The Latvian Language Law Debate: Some Aspects of Linguistic Human Rights in Education	83	(4)
Ina Druviete
Use of Language Rights by Minorities	87	(5)
E. Annamalai
(Un) Writing the Margins: Steps Toward an Ecology of Language	92	(3)
Mark Fettes
Part III. Equity: Justice for Speakers of All Languages	95	(54)
Writing for Diversity	97	(5)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
On the Financing of Language Policies and Distributive Justice	102	(9)
Francois Grin
Francois Vaillancourt
Towards More Fairness in International English: Linguistic Rights of Non-native Speakers?	111	(6)
Ulrich Ammon
Linguicism in Action: Language and Power in Academic Institutions	117	(5)
Masaki Oda
Equality of Opportunity and Assimilation. Or: We German Left-wing Do--gooders and Minority Language Rights	122	(5)
Antje-Katrin Menk
Science and Policy - When does Science Matter?	127	(5)
Ingegerd Municio-Larsson
From Historical Shame to Present Struggle	132	(8)
Jarmo Lainio
Which Contacts Breed Conflicts?	140	(4)
Miklos Kontra
Exclusion as Discursive Practice and the Politics of Identity	144	(5)
Mustafa Hussain
Part IV. Power: Policies for Multilingualism	149	(52)
Paradoxes of Plurilingualism. For better? For worse? And Beyond?	151	(9)
Angeline Martel
Promoting Multilingualism and Linguistic Human Rights in the Era of Economic Rationalism and Globalization	160	(4)
Michael Clyne
Language Resilience and Educational Empowerment: Philippines and Australia	164	(6)
Jerzy J. Smolicz
Margaret J. Secombe
Language Policy and Planning in South Africa: Some Insights	170	(4)
Neville Alexander
Mother Tongue Education: The Key to African Language Development? A Conversation with an Imagined South African Audience	174	(5)
Zubeida Desai
Common Practice and Linguistic Human Rights: A-Team v. B-Team Coercion or the Co-construction of `Utopia'	179	(8)
Shelley K. Taylor
Creating a Bilingual Family in a `Monolingual' Country	187	(6)
Leena Huss
The Reindeer on the Mountain, the Reindeer in the Mind: On Sami Yoik Lyrics	193	(8)
Harald Gaski
Part V. Education: Affirming Diversity, Confirming Rights	201	(63)
The Linguistic Human Rights of Sign Language Users	203	(11)
Markku Jokinen
The Linguistic Problem Child has Many Names	214	(5)
Pertti Toukomaa
Creating a Successful Minority School	219	(8)
Markku Peura
Bilingual versus Bilingual Education: The Case of Slovakia	227	(7)
Istvan Lanstyak
Giving Good Weight to Multilingualism in South Africa	234	(5)
Kathleen Heugh
Education for All - In Whose Language?	239	(4)
Birgit Brock-Utne
Language: A Diversity Category Beyond All Others	243	(6)
Ofelia Garcia
`This Place Nurtures my Spirit': Creating Contexts of Empowerment in Linguistically-diverse Schools	249	(10)
Jim Cummins
Dual Language Models and Intergenerational Inspirations	259	(5)
Dawn Wink
Joan Wink
Integrative Comment: Living with Vision and Commitment	264	(15)
Robert Phillipson
Contributors	279	(10)
Bibliography	289	(16)
Index	305