Abstract
This chapter evaluates the routes of recognition for minority languages in deeply divided societies. With reference to regions such as Guatemala, Rwanda, Ireland, the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine and others, it critically analyses both the transformative and disruptive potential of the politics of language. Initial attention is paid to the theoretical notion of recognition and how these debates are particularly relevant to post-conflict places. Following this, consideration is taken of how language rights are applied or ignored at different levels in such broad-ranging contexts. This includes input from grassroots movements, alterations to restrictive attitudes at national level and the influence of global politics in the application of language rights in deeply divided societies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities |
| Editors | Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O'Rourke |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 159-179 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781137540669 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137540652 |
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| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 2019 |
Keywords
- language diversity
- Applied linguistics
- transnationalism
- globalization
- Mobility
- Anthropology
- ethnolinguistics
- Minority Communities
- Minority Contact Languages
- language rights
- language ecologies
- language attitudes
- language endangerment
- language shift
- resilience thinking
- language revitalization
- Language Maintenance
- Language Economics
- multilinugal education
- Language Commissioners