Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas , Robert Phillipson , Mart Rannut
Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas , Robert Phillipson , Mart Rannut
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语言人权:克服语言歧视。
DOI:
10.1086/466356
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发表时间:
1998
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0.1
通讯作者:
N. Hornberger
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作者:
N. Hornberger
Linguistic human rights (LHR) are, according to this volume, in need of recognition as basic human rights for all. The volume provides theoretical perspectives, macro-level policy overviews, and specific case descriptions, all aimed toward demonstrating the extent of linguistic discrimination in our world and the gathering momentum of policies seeking to define certain inalienable, fundamental LHR. Usefully, an extensive appendix provides excerpts from some twenty-three key LHR documents, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966), the United Nations' Universal Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples (draft, 1991), and Articles for a Universal Charter of Basic Human Language Rights (draft, 1993).Editors Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson define LHR as follows (in part):" Observing LHR implies at an individual level, that everyone can identify with their mother tongue, and have that identification respected by others...; and at a collective level, the right of minority groups to exist... and to enjoy and develop their language...."(p. 2); they emphasize that individual and collective rights are complementary and not mutually exclusive to each other (p. 12). As Hamel later points out (p. 298), there is also a correlation between individual and collective linguistic rights, on the one hand, and, on the other, language policy principles of personality and territoriality, whereby the right to speak a particular language is attached to individuals or to territories, respectively. Grin reviews these principles and goes on to propose principles of territorial multilingualism based on a revision of the territorial principle toward greater flexibility, in order to accommodate the asymmetrical power relations, interlocking spatial distributions, and migrational dynamics of lan-