Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 1996Douglas A. Kibbee The contributions to this volume cover a broad range of issues in language policy that are hotly debated in every corner of the globe. The articles included investigate the implications of language policies on the notion of language rights as the issues are played out in very specific circumstances from the courtroom in Australia to the legislature in California to the educational system in England to the administrative practices of the European Commission. The authors explore conflicts between basic conceptions of fairness in justice, administration and education on the one hand, and political and economic realities on the other. Articles focus on langage issues in the United States, Canada, Brazil, England, France, Slovakia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Australia and several African states. Other articles consider the implications of new supernational agreements the European Union, NAFTA, GATT, the OAU on language issues in the signatory states. In sum the volume offers an extensive presentation of current issues and practices in language policy and linguistic human rights. |
Contents
Legaland Linguistic Perspectives on Language Legislation | 1 |
The Linguistic Rights of NonEnglish Speaking Suspects Witnesses Victims and Defendants | 24 |
Great MischiefsAn Historical Look at Language Legislation in Great Britain | 32 |
The Criminalization of Spanish in the United States | 55 |
Towards Consensus? Standard English in the NationalCurriculum | 68 |
the Clash ofWorld Hegemonies in the Language Ideologies ofArthur Balfour and Woodrow Wilson | 84 |
Social and Ideological Sources of Language Restrictionism in theUnited States | 96 |
The Shaping of Federal Language Policy in the United States | 123 |
OAUs Resolutionson African Languages and the State of Their Implementation | 240 |
Language Policy in Education and the Future of Indigenous Languages in PostApartheid South Africa | 248 |
Language and Human Rights in Africa | 261 |
A Deaf Community Finds Its Voic | 269 |
A Case Study of the EuropeanCommission | 288 |
French Language Policy and Francophonie | 310 |
Quebecs Charter of the French Language Twenty Years After | 320 |
Internal and International Aspects | 341 |
How Similar Are They? | 142 |
What Happens After English is Declared the Official Language of the United States? | 179 |
A Historical Perspective on Language Policy in Russia | 196 |
The Case of SriLanka | 206 |
On the ElevenOfficial Languages Policy of the NewSouth Africa | 225 |
Some Glottopolitical Considerations | 351 |
INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES | 395 |
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