Language and minority rights : ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language
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Language and minority rights : ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language
（Language in social life series）
Longman, 2001
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [317]-357
Includes index
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Description
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
Table of Contents
Introduction1. The denunciation of ethnicity2. Nationalism and its discontents3. Liberal theory, multiculturalism and minority rights4. Language, identity and minority rights5. Language, education and minority rights6. English hegemony and its critics: North American debates7. Extending ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe8. Indigenous rights: self-determination, language and education9. Minority languages and the nation-state
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