Language Rights and Language Survival

Jane Freeland is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities, Southampton University, UK. She has written and published extensively on the development of language rights and language policy in Nicaragua's multiethnic, multilingual Caribbean Coast region since the Sandinista revolution, and on their significance for the language rights debate.Donna Patrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Canadian Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. Her current research focuses on language use in a Northern Quebec Inuit community. Her recent publications have investigated issues of language, politics, and social interaction in this region and sociolinguistic aspects of minority language maintenance and in second and third language acquisition.

• Acknowledgements 1. Language Rights and Language Survival Sociolinguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives 2. Rethinking Linguistic Human Rights Answering Questions of Identity, Essentialism and Mobility 3. Rights in Places Comments on Linguistic Rights and Wrongs 4. Minority, but Non-Confrontational Balancing on the Double-edged Sword of Hegemony and Ambivalence 5. Revitalization and Retention of First Nations Languages in Southwestern Ontario 6. Linguistic Rights and Language Survival in a Creole Space Dilemmas for Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast Creoles 7. Can a Language that Never Existed Be Saved? Coming to Terms with Oroqen Language Revitalization 8. Language and Intergroup Perception in Sabah A Case Study of the Rungus Ethnic Community 9. The Politics of Language Rights in the Eastern Canadian Arctic 10. Language Rights and Linguistic Citizenship 11. Language Rights, Democracy and the European Union 12. Ideological Dilemmas in Language and Cultural Policies in Madrid Schools 13. Language Rights and Wrongs A Commentary 14. Analysis and Stance Regarding Language and Social Justice