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In:Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 1996
Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 2] 1998
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Published online: 15 August 1998
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Acknowledgmentsviii
Presentationx
Legal and Linguistic Perspectives on Language Legislation1
The Linguistic Rights of Non-English Speaking Suspects, Whitnesses, Victims and Defendants24
Great Mischiefs — An Historical Look at Language Legislation in Great Britain32
The Crminalization of Spanish in the United States55
Towards Consensus? Standard English in the National Curriculum68
Beyond an Anglo-Saxon Confederation: the Clash of World Hegemonies in the Language Ideologies of Arthur Balfour and Woodrow Wilson84
Anatomy of the English-Only Movement: Social and Ideological Sources of Language Restrictionism in the United States96
The Courts, the Legislature and society: the Shaping of Federal Language Policy in the United States123
Language Rights Arguments in Central Europe and the USA: How Similar Are They?142
What Happens After English is Declared the Official Language of the United States?179
A Historical Perspective on Language Policy in Russia196
Majority Language, Minority Misery: The Case of sri Lanka206
On the Eleven-Official Languages Policy of the New South Africa225
OAU’s Resolutions on African Languages and the State of Their Implementation240
Language Policy in Education and the Future of Indigenous Languages in Post-Apartheid South Africa248
Language and human Rights in Africa261
The Case for Brazilian Sign Language: A Deaf Community Finds Its Voice269
Requirements, Dynamics and Realities of Language Use in the EU: A Case Study of the European Commission288
French Language Policy and Francophonie310
Quebec’s Charter of the French Language Twenty Years After320
The Philosophy of the French Language Legislation: Internal and International Aspects341
The role of the french Language in Maintening Linguistic Diversity in North America: Some Glottopolitical Considerations351
Bibliography363
Index of Personal Names395
Index of Languages399
General Index403
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