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  Language and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Language (Paperback) By (author) Stephen May

  

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  Short Description for Language and Minority Rights"The first edition of Language and Minority Rights, an outstanding interdisciplinary analysis of the questions and issues concerning minority language rights in modern nation-states, is now regarded as a key benchmark in the field of language rights and language policy. Its core arguments have shaped the discussion of language rights over the last decade. This new edition substantially revises and
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  • Publisher: Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
  • Published: 16 December 2011
  • Format: Paperback 448 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Sociolinguistics | ELT: Learning Material & Coursework | Multicultural Education | Organization & Management Of Education | Teaching Of Students With English As A Second Language (TESOL)
  • ISBN 13: 9780805863062 ISBN 10: 0805863060

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• The second edition addresses new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial publication, including the burgeoning influence of globalization and the relentless rise of English as the current world language. May's broad position, however, remains largely unchanged. He argues that the causes of many of the language-based conflicts in the world today still lie with the nation-state and its preoccupation with establishing a 'common' language and culture via mass education. The solution, he suggests, is to rethink nation-states in more culturally and linguistically plural ways while avoiding, at the same time, essentializing the language-identity link. This edition, like the first, adopts a wide interdisciplinary framework, drawing on sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, political theory, education and law. It also includes new discussions of cosmopolitanism, globalization, the role of English, and language and mobility, highlighting the ongoing difficulties faced by minority language speakers in the world today.