In Defense of Language Rights: Rethinking the Rights Orientation from a Political Economy Perspective

Autor/in	Bale, Jeff
Titel	In Defense of Language Rights: Rethinking the Rights Orientation from a Political Economy Perspective
Quelle	In: Bilingual Research Journal, 39 (2016) 3-4, S.231-247 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1523-5882
DOI	10.1080/15235882.2016.1224208
Schlagwörter	Civil Rights; Native Language; Language Attitudes; Politics; Language Planning; Activism; Language of Instruction; Teaching Methods; Criticism; Foreign Countries; Scholarship; English; French; English (Second Language); Second Languages; Second Language Learning; Elementary Secondary Education; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Sprachverhalten; Politik; Sprachwechsel; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kritik; Ausland; Scholarships; Stipendium; English language; Englisch; Französisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Second language; Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Kanada
Abstract	This article addresses language rights as a legitimate political tool for language policy scholarship and activism. The article begins by engaging several critiques of language rights. It analyzes Ruiz's language-as-right orientation to language policy, and then reviews recent scholarship challenging language rights from poststructural and postcolonial positions. The first part of the article argues that, despite considerable differences in theoretical orientation, these critiques of language rights come to a similar conclusion: that a rights-based approach to language policy deepens divisions based on language, rather than overcoming them. The second part of the article outlines a political economy approach to framing language rights. The article closes with a specific case of language education policy in Canada. This case provides an example of a political-economic approach to language rights both an analytical method and a political strategy for language policy activism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01