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Language Rights V. Pupavac

Language Rights By V. Pupavac

Language Rights by V. Pupavac


Summary

Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.

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Language Rights: From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance by V. Pupavac

Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.

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About V. Pupavac

VANESSA PUPAVAC is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has a background in Slavonic languages and law, and previously worked as a translator for the United Nations. Vanessa's research encompasses international human rights, children's rights, linguistic rights, humanitarian and development politics.

Table of Contents

Contesting Human Rights, Language, and Politics The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Governance of Politics Enlightenment Speech to Romantic National Languages From Romantic Subjectivity to Post-Romantic Cultural Identities and Linguistic Adaptation Righting Babel? Translation as Cultural Transfusion or Cultural Violence Linguistic Imperialism, Global English and Modernity Anticolonial and Post-Independence Language Politics: From Emancipatory Aspirations to Limits Language Rights Politics in Former Yugoslavia and Therapeutic Cultural Governance in Bosnia Ecolinguistics and Post-Humanist Advocacy From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?

Additional information

NPB9781403940865
9781403940865
140394086X
Language Rights: From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance by V. Pupavac
New
Hardback
Palgrave USA
2012-09-24
317
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