Linguistic Human Rights and Mobility

Autor/in	Wee, Lionel
Titel	Linguistic Human Rights and Mobility
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 28 (2007) 4, S.325-338 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
Schlagwörter	Sociolinguistics; Models; Monolingualism; Language Role; Civil Rights; Language Minorities; Global Approach; Discourse Analysis; Ideology; Language Attitudes; Multilingualism; Second Languages; Language Usage; Refugees; English (Second Language); Language Variation; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziolinguistik; Analogiemodell; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Sprachminderheit; Globales Denken; Diskursanalyse; Ideologie; Sprachverhalten; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Second language; Zweitsprache; Sprachgebrauch; Flüchtling; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachenvielfalt; Singapur
Abstract	The Linguistic Human Rights (LHRs) paradigm is motivated by the desire to combat linguistic discrimination, where speakers of discriminated languages find themselves unable to use their preferred language in society at large. However, in an increasingly globalised world where speakers may feel the need or the desire to travel across state boundaries, there is a question about the transposability of LHRs. This paper first considers the human rights discourse, and shows that problems in this discourse are inherited by and exacerbated in the LHRs paradigm, in no small part because its conception of language draws on an ideology of monolingualism. But since a world of mobile humans is one that is fundamentally plurilingual, what is therefore needed is a greater emphasis on the notion of a social language, which provides a more robust understanding of the nature of language, especially in a world where people tend to move around a lot. (Contains 18 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10