Language Policy, Protest and Rebellion

The hypothesis that language discrimination contributes to protest and/or rebellion is tested. Constitutional language policy regarding administrative/judicial, educational and other matters is measured on three separate scales developed for this study; the status of each minority group's language under its country's policy is measured by another set of scales. Protest and rebellion variables are taken from Gurr's Minorities at Risk study. Findings include an indication that group language status contributes positively to protest and rebellion until a language attains moderate recognition by the government, at which point status develops a negative relationship with protest and rebellion, and an indication that countries with wider internal variations in their treatment of language groups experience higher levels of protest and rebellion on the part of minority groups.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2001

Author dc:creator

• Lunsford, Sharon

Contributors dc:contributor

• Booth, John A.
• Poe, Steven
• Tate, C. Neal

• Language policy.
• Language and languages -- Political aspects.
• Ethnic conflict.
• Insurgency.
• Government, Resistance to.
• Rebellion.
• language policy
• ethnic conflict
• protest
• language status

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Lunsford, Sharon
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 47849246
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2790/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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