The Right to Language: Towards a Situated Ethics of Language Possibilities.

Pennycook, Alastair

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ERIC Number: EJ557022

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Publication Date: 1998

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The Right to Language: Towards a Situated Ethics of Language Possibilities.

Pennycook, Alastair

Language Sciences, v20 n1 p73-87 Jan 1998

Focuses on an exploration of an alternative space adjacent to postmodernist work in language rights. There are numerous different positions on language rights. Extends a politicized version of language rights that proposes that these rights are subordinate to the structure of power and domination and that language policy is a form of covert state control. (42 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Civil Rights, Cultural Context, Language Attitudes, Minority Groups, Official Languages, Political Issues, Postmodernism, Power Structure, Sociolinguistics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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