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Language Policy and Language Issues in the Successor States of the Former USSR (Current Issues in Language and Society Monographs) - Hardcover

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9781853594632: Language Policy and Language Issues in the Successor States of the Former USSR (Current Issues in Language and Society Monographs)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1853594636 ISBN 13: 9781853594632
Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 1999

Synopsis

This book looks at the question of language rights: the rights of minorities to remain monolingual if they so wish and the rights of governments to promote the language of the majority as the language of the state. The central question is once again the thorny problem of whether linguistic rights are fundamental human rights, and therefore inalienable and individual, or whether they are group rights, since communication necessarily involves more than one individual. The context of this discussion is the situation of the Russian speakers in Latvia and Kyrgyzstan.

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About the Author

Sue Wright is a lecturer in the School of Language and European Studies at Aston University. Her research interests are multilingualism and language policy in Europe.

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Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1853594636
ISBN 13 
9781853594632
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
96
Editor
Wright Sue