Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century

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Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century. / Tamburelli, Marco.
Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. ed. / Marco Tamburelli; Mauro Tosco. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. p. 21-39 (Studies in World Language Problems).

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HarvardHarvard

Tamburelli, M 2021, Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century. in M Tamburelli & M Tosco (eds), Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Studies in World Language Problems, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 21-39.

APA

Tamburelli, M. (2021). Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century. In M. Tamburelli, & M. Tosco (Eds.), Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe (pp. 21-39). (Studies in World Language Problems). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

CBE

Tamburelli M. 2021. Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century. Tamburelli M, Tosco M, editors. In Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 21-39. (Studies in World Language Problems).

MLA

Tamburelli, Marco "Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century". and Tamburelli, Marco Tosco, Mauro (editors). Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Chapter 2, Studies in World Language Problems. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2021, 21-39.

VancouverVancouver

Tamburelli M. Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century. In Tamburelli M, Tosco M, editors, Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2021. p. 21-39. (Studies in World Language Problems).

Author

Tamburelli, Marco. / Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century. Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. editor / Marco Tamburelli ; Mauro Tosco. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. pp. 21-39 (Studies in World Language Problems).

RIS

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N2 - In this chapter I argue that over-reliance on socio-political criteria (i.e. Ausbau-centrism) in the linguistic literature is partly responsible for the discrimination to which speakers of contested languages are subjected at both the social and the institutional level. Further, I argue that an Ausbau-centred approach also leads to undersplitting of languages (i.e. recognising as few languages as possible), which is ultimately detrimental to the maintenance of linguistic diversity. I conclude by suggesting that the introduction of an Abstand-based perspective is necessary if we are to achieve a taxonomy of “languages” that cuts through socio-cultural biases and that works in favour of language rights and linguistic diversity.

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