Language Without Rights

by Lionel Wee

Language without Rights is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights. Synthesizing insights from a variety of disciplines, including linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, sociology and political philosophy, Wee demonstrates how the appeal to language rights faces a number of conceptual and practical problems, particularly because the discourse of rights is fundamentally inconsistent with the socially variable nature of language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199737428
• ISBN13: 9780199737420
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"