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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"linguistic rights"”.
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
… study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and …
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Linguistic rights in Africa: A critical analysis of the survivability of indigenous languages of Namibia
… to awareness campaigns by academics and human rights organisations. The United Nations through its agency the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) continues to promote linguistic and cultural diversity as well as multilingualism. To this effect, the UN …
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The international protection of language rights
… language groups remain at the cutting edge of linguistic discrimination, some national and regional minorities (e.g. in Belgium, Canada, Finland, India, and Switzerland) by contrast, are empowered to exercise at least some of their basic linguistic rights.
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“Implications of South Africa’s new language policy with special references to the implementation of African languages as media of instruction”
… of education. The most critical and relevant linguistic aspects examined here, takes into account the issue of multilingualism in education or multilingual education (particularly the issues that still handicaps it), the development of African languages and linguistic rights. The study …
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Sesotho immigrant minority group and language rights in South Africa: a case study
… Sesotho immigrant minority group and language rights in South Africa. The research is based on a case study. It explores the country’s language usage in selected courtroom cases. The focus is on immigrant minority groups and their language rights in relation to the role of South African …
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Legal Recognition and Media Representation of Sign Languages: South African Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language as case studies
… as comparative case studies. Drawing on sociolinguistic frameworks of language planning and policy, and language ideologies and attitudes, the study explores how officialisation impacts newspaper media portrayals of sign languages and their users. Firstly, an extensive survey of the different …
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Irish language activism in West Belfast : a resistance to British cultural hegemony
… activism is the struggle for the cultural and linguistic rights of republican prisoners. However, the State justifies the shunning of these demands by citing the security risk they may engender. Oppositional Irish language activists, in particular Sinn Fein (the political wing of the Republican …