Language and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of Language - Brossura

May, Stephen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 058240455X ISBN 13: 9780582404557

Casa editrice: Longman Pub Group, 2001

Riassunto

A provocative and ground-breaking contribution to the debate on language and identity. Calling for a major reappraisal of the long-held consensus in the sociology of ethnicity and nationalism - and to a lesser extent in the sociology of language - that dismisses language as an important feature of individual and collective identity. Using examples of many language-based historical and contemporary ethnic and ethno-national movements and conflicts, the author pinpoints the causes of many of these conflicts within the nation-state and its preoccupation with establishing a 'common' language and culture via mass education. Shortlisted for the 2002 BAAL Book Prize

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'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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Book by May Stephen

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Longman Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 058240455X
• ISBN 13: 9780582404557
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile