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Only a few hundred of the world's languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This volume describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights. ""Linguistic Human Rights"" introduces an area that combines sociolinguistics, educational and minority c

This book is a collection of original essays on the practice of linguistic fieldwork and language documentation. Twelve of the leading field linguists in the world have written personal essays about the study of languages in a natural setting. Drawing on extensive research experience, they pass on the lessons they have learnt, review the techniques that they found worked best in practice, and discuss a variety of relevant topics, including the attitude of the linguist, the structure and content of the work session, the varied roles of native speakers, and the practical and personal challenges of doing research in an unfamiliar environment. Covering a wide range of field areas, and written in an accessible manner, the book will be indispensable to fieldworkers in linguistics, anthropology, folklore and oral history.

Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Chapter 1: Spain's Multilingual Make-up: Beyond, Within and Across Babel -- Chapter 2: The Catalan-speaking Communities -- Chapter 3: The Basque-speaking Communities -- Chapter 4: The Galician Speech Community -- Chapter 5: The Occitan Speech Community of the Aran Valley -- Chapter 6: The Asturian Speech Community -- Chapter 7: The Sign Language Communities -- Chapter 8: The Gitano Communities -- Chapter 9: The Jewish Communities -- Chapter 10: The Brazilian Community -- Chapter 11: The Cape Verdean Community -- Chapter 12: The Chinese Community -- Chapter 13: The Italian Community -- Chapter 14: The Maghrebi Communities -- Chapter 15: The Portuguese Community -- Chapter 16: The UK Community -- Chapter 17: The US American Speech Community

I: Representation and Language -- II: A Mentalistic Theory -- III: Rules -- IV: Translation and Theories -- V: Explanation and Truth -- VI: The Protosemantics of Basic Claims -- VII: The Protosemantics of Complex Claims -- VIII: Representation and Man -- Appendix I. Notes -- Appendix II. Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.