Language without Rights

By:

Lionel Wee

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

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Language without Rights is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights. Synthesizing insights from a variety of disciplines, including linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, sociology and political philosophy, Wee demonstrates how the appeal to language rights faces a number of conceptual and practical problems, particularly because the discourse of rights is fundamentally inconsistent with the socially variable nature of language. The book also explores an alternative that is more in tune with the complexities of language in social life by suggesting that issues involving language are better managed within a model of deliberative democracy.

Author Biography:

Lionel Wee is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at National University of Singapore.

Release date Australia

January 20th, 2011

Author

Lionel Wee

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

232

Series

Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

Dimensions

159x234x24

ISBN-13

9780199737420

Product ID

8347223

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