List of CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Francisca Sanchez: Tove
PART I.
LANGUAGE: ITS DIVERSITY, ITS STUDY, AND OUR UNDERSTANDINGS OF IT
Kerttu
Vuolab: Such a
Treasure of Knowledge for Human Survival
Luisa
Maffi: Linguistic
and Biological Diversity: The Inextricable Link
Joshua
A. Fishman and Gella Schweid Fishman: Rethinking Language
Defense
Jan
Branson and Don Miller: Maintaining, Developing and Sharing the
Knowledge and Potential Embedded in all our Languages and Cultures: On linguists
as Agents of Epistemic Violence
Amir
Hassanpour: The
Politics of A-political Linguistics: Linguists and
Linguicide
Anna-Riitta Lindgren: Language Emancipation: The Finnish
Case
D. P.
Pattanayak:
Linguistic Pluralism: A Point of Departure
Lilja
Liukka: Birch -
Wind - Looks
Probal
Dasgupta: Culture,
Sharing and Language
Constance M. Beutel: 'Spirit of the Earth'
PART II.
RIGHTS: LANGUAGE RIGHTS, THEIR ARTICULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
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Naz
Rassool: Language
Maintenance as an Arena of Cultural and Political Struggles in a Changing
World
Cees
Hamelink: Human
Rights: The Next Fifty Years
Fernand
de Varennes:
Tolerance and Inclusion: The Convergence of Human Rights and the Work of Tove
Skutnabb-Kangas
Pirkko
Leporanta-Morley:
Unity in difference - Belonging
Teun A.
van Dijk: Discourse
and Access
Peter
Mühlhäusler:
Language Rights for the Language of Norfolk Island
Ina
Druviete: The
Latvian Language Law Debate: Some Aspects of Linguistic Human Rights in
Education
E.
Annamalai: Use of
Language Rights by Minorities
Mark
Fettes: (Un)Writing
the Margins: Steps Toward an Ecology of Language
PART III.
EQUITY: JUSTICE FOR SPEAKERS OF ALL LANGUAGES 95
Ngugi wa
Thiong'o: Writing
for Diversity
François
Grin and François Vaillancourt: On the Financing of Language Policies and
Distributive Justice
Ulrich
Ammon: Towards more
Fairness in International English: Linguistic Rights of Non-native
Speakers?
Masaki
Oda: Linguicism in
Action: Language and Power in Academic Institutions
Antje-Katrin Menk: Equality of Opportunity and Assimilation. Or:
We German Left-wing Do-gooders and Minority Language
Rights
Ingegerd
Municio-Larsson:
Science and Policy - When does Science Matter?
Jarmo
Lainio: From
Historical Shame to Present Struggle
Miklós
Kontra: Which
Contacts Breed Conflicts? 140
Mustafa
Hussain: Exclusion
as Discursive Practice and the Politics of Identity
PART IV.
POWER: POLICIES FOR MULTILINGUALISM 149
Angéline
Martel: Paradoxes
of Plurilingualism. For better? For worse? And Beyond?
Michael
Clyne: Promoting
Multilingualism and Linguistic Human Rights in the Era of Economic Rationalism
and Globalization
Language
Resilience and Educational Empowerment: Philippines and
Australia
Jerzy J.
Smolicz and Margaret J. Secombe:
Neville
Alexander: Language
Policy and Planning in South Africa: Some Insights
Zubeida
Desai: Mother
Tongue Education: The Key to African Language Development? A Conversation with
an Imagined South African Audience
Shelley
K. Taylor: Common
Practice and Linguistic Human Rights: A-Team v. B-Team Coercion or the
Co-construction of 'Utopia'
Leena
Huss: Creating a
Bilingual Family in a 'Monolingual' Country
Harald
Gaski: The Reindeer
on the Mountain, the Reindeer in the Mind: On Sámi Yoik
Lyrics
PART V.
EDUCATION: AFFIRMING DIVERSITY, CONFIRMING RIGHTS
Markku
Jokinen: The
Linguistic Human Rights of Sign Language Users
Pertti
Toukomaa: The
Linguistic Problem Child has Many Names
Markku
Peura: Creating a
Successful Minority School
Istvan
Lanstyak: Bilingual
versus Bilingual Education: The Case of Slovakia
Kathleen
Heugh: Giving Good
Weight to Multilingualism in South Africa
Birgit
Brock-Utne:
Education for All - In Whose Language?
Ofelia
García: Language: A
Diversity Category Beyond all Others
Jim
Cummins: 'This
Place Nurtures my Spirit': Creating Contexts of Empowerment in
Linguistically-diverse Schools
Dawn
Wink and Joan Wink:
Dual Language Models and Intergenerational Inspirations
Robert
Phillipson:
Integrative Comment: Living with Vision and Commitment
Contributors
Bibliography
Index