Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights is the first Handbook-length resource in the field of language rights and linguistic human rights. Bringing together key research in the area from around the globe, six sections offer an exploration of multidisciplinary theory and practice: General Issues; Language Human Rights (LHRs) in the policies of official or global institutions, Suppression of LHRs; Issues of access, procedure and implementation; LHRs and Documenting endangered languages; and finally Successful experience of recognising and implementing LHRs policies. Authored by a prominent team of international experts in their respective fields and geographical areas, the individual chapters of the Handbook are masterfully brought together by the highly qualified editorial team of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson. The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights is written so that it is accessible to a wide audience of researchers and students of linguistics, applied linguistics and multilingual education, as well as multidisciplinary areas of education, law, political theory, sociology, cultural studies, minority studies, and anthropology"-- Provided by publisher

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