Includes bibliographical references and index.

The world's languages in crisis / Michael Krauss -- The changing linguistic ecology of the Pacific region / Peter Mühlhäusler -- Why something should be done / Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine -- Linguistic, cultural and biological diversity / Luisa Maffi -- The ecology of language revival / John Edwards -- Language policy and the ecological turn / Alistair Pennycook -- Human rights and language wrongs : a future for diversity? / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- English only worldwide or language ecology? / Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- Globalizing English : are linguistic human rights an alternative to linguistic imperialism? / Robert Phillipson -- Class, ethnicity and language rights : an analysis of British colonial policy / Janina Brutt-Griffler -- Language rights: moving the debate forward / Stephen May -- Language and ethnic minority rights / Lionel Wee -- Survey article : the justification of minority language rights / Alan Patten -- A liberal democratic approach to language justice / David Laitin and Rob Reich -- The language of democracy : vernacular or Esperanto? : a comparison between the multiculturalist and cosmopolitan perspectives / Daniele Archibugi -- Cosmopolitanism and global English : language politics in globalisation debates / Peter Ives -- Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia : rethinking political theory and language policy for a multilingual world / Stephen May -- Language rights as an integral part of human rights / Fernand de Varennes -- Minority language rights in international law / Robert Dunbar -- Language rights : the "Cinderella" human right / Stephen May -- Language policy, language education, language rights : indigenous, immigrant and international perspectives / Nancy Hornberger -- Native American languages in and out of the safety zone, 1492-2012 / Teresa McCarty -- African mother-tongue programmes and the politics of language : linguistic citizenship versus linguistic human rights / Christopher Stroud -- Multilingualism of the unequals and predicaments of education in India : mother tongue or other tongue? imagining multilingual schools / Ajit Mohanty.

"This reference volume brings together...contributions that have shaped the field of language rights over the last 40 years. Work in language rights is particularly concerned with the rights of minority language speakers in modern nation-states. It also encompasses related discussions on language endangerment, the maintenance of bilingualism and multilingualism, the role of education, and the impact of English as the current world language in an increasingly globalized world. As such, the field of language rights is also strongly interdisciplinary, drawing on work in language policy, sociolinguistics, political theory, law and education - all key disciplinary areas that are represented in this volume. It is also avowedly international, with discussion in this volume of contexts that span Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania/the Pacific region. The various contributions in this volume also address a range of linguistic minority groups, including Indigenous peoples, national minorities, and migrant groups. This volume is relevant to a wide range of students and scholars interested in issues of language endangerment, linguistic justice, language and citizenship, human rights, Indigenous studies, language education, bilingualism and multilingualism, and English as a world language."-- Provided by publisher.

1 2