LANGUAGE WITHOUT RIGHTS

This volume is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights. It presents a balanced, though ultimately skeptical, evalua tion of language rights. Through a sophisticated synthesis of insights from a variety of disciplines, including linguistic anthropol ogy, sociolinguistics, sociology and political philosophy, it demonstrates how the appeal to language rights faces a number of conce ptual and practical problems, particularly because the discourse of rights is fundamentally inconsistent with the socially variable nature of...[Read more]