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Publication details [#11843]

Hamel, Rainer Enrique. 1997. Language Conflict and Language Shift: A Sociolinguistic Framework for Linguistic Human Rights. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 127 : 105–134. 30 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | language shift | linguistic human rights

Language as a subject

Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper outlines a sociolinguistic approach to the Mexican language conflict and shift. This framework encompasses language structure, discourse and culture. Eight minimal criteria for linguistic human rights are presented.