Minority Language Rights: Ideas and Norms

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose-Maria Arraiza
Keyword(s):  
Minority Language ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Minority Language Rights

Equal Recognition and Language Rights

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Patten
Keyword(s):  
Minority Language ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Language Preservation ◽  
Minority Language Rights ◽  
Equal Recognition

This chapter explores the justification of minority language rights. It argues that equal recognition ought to play a key role in thinking about the justification of minority language rights, and that disputes about language rights ought to be examined from the perspective of what was called “full liberal proceduralism.” From this perspective, the mere fact that some minority language is doing poorly does not by itself ground a legitimate complaint of injustice by speakers of that language. But minority speakers do have a complaint if their language fares poorly in a context in which it is disfavored by public institutions. There is no right to language preservation, but there is a strong, pro tanto claim for equal recognition, a claim that can be considered a right in the absence of defeating countervailing considerations.

Territoriality and Minority Language Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Vizi
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Minority Language Rights

Territorial principle emerges not only in domestic legislations on language rights, but also in international documents. The article aims at offering an overview of the interpretations of territoriality in international documents relevant for minority language rights, with a special focus on the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. While states often use territorial requirements as a tool of political control over minority language use, the interpretation of their obligations under the two Council of Europe treaties would require a more practical and technical approach to territorial limitations.

Minority Language Rights in International Law

2001 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Minority Language Rights ◽  
Regional Or Minority Languages

The provision of legislative or other legal protection for linguistic minorities is widespread in domestic legal systems.1 In international law, and in international human rights law in particular, the question of minority language rights has until recently received much less attention. The entry into force on 1 March 1998 of the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (the “Minority Languages Charter”), the first international instrument directed solely at the question of language, suggests that the situation may be changing.

scholarly journals Assimilationist Ideology and Minority Language Rights: The Case of Manchu Language Endangerment and Revitalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Chuqiao Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Historical Injustice ◽  
Language Endangerment ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Minority Language Education ◽  
Minority Language Rights ◽  
Policy Models

This study investigates the influence of assimilationist ideology and policies on the surprisingly severe<br />Manchu language endangerment via a social-historical analysis. Building on an examination of two<br />language policy models and four historical stages of minority language education since the<br />establishment of the People’s Republic of China, this study highlights the importance of viewing<br />Manchu language as minority language speakers’ necessary human rights. In order to emphasize<br />human agency considerations, this study also argues for the promising involvement of local educators<br />and communities in planning for Manchu language revitalization. Suggestions for ideological shifts<br />and implementational concerns are provided to address various sociopolitical and economic<br />constraints, and to empower Manchus to contest the historical injustice Manchus have experienced by<br />actively protecting their language rights and resources.

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