Language rights and political theory

364 Pages·2007·22.44 MB·

by  Will Kymlicka, Alan Patten

Language Rights and Political Theory
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Language Rights
and Political Theory
Edited by
WILL KYMLICKA
and
ALAN PATTEN
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Acknowledgements
This volume grew out of a workshop on language rights held at Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario, in March 2001, where many of these chapters
were first presented. We'd like to thank Idil Boran for helping to organize the
workshop, John Edwards for his participation, Jacob Levy for his suggestions,
Michael James for his excellent copy-editing, and Dominic Byatt for his enthusi­
astic support. Special thanks to Julie Bernier for her speedy and efficient work in
providing background research, harmonizing the formatting of the various
chapters, and compiling the references.
Funding for this project was received from the Faculty of Arts and Science at
Queen's University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada. Two of the chapters have been published previously in slightly different
forms: Thomas Pogge's chapter was first published in Jorge Gracia and Pablo de
Greiff (eds), Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights
(New York: Routledge, 2000), 181-200; Philippe Van Parijs' chapter was
published in Policy, Philosophy, and Economics, 1 (2002), 59-74. We are grateful for
permission to reprint these chapters.
Will Kymlicka, Kingston
Alan Patten, Montreal
November2002
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables ix
Notes on Contributors x
1. Introduction: Language Rights and Political Theory:
Context, Issues, and Approaches 1
Alan Patten and Will Kymlicka
2. Language Rights: Exploring the Competing Rationales 52
Ruth Rubio-Marin
3. A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice 80
David D. Laitin and Rob Reich
4. Accommodation Rights for Hispanics in the United States 105
Thomas W.Pogge
5. Misconceiving Minority Language Rights:
Implications for Liberal Political Theory 123
Stephen May
6. Linguistic Justice 153
Philippe Van Parijs
7. Diversity as Paradigm, Analytical Device, and Policy Goal 169
Francois Grin
8. Global Linguistic Diversity, Public Goods, and the
Principle of Fairness 189
IdilBoran
9. Language Death and Liberal Politics 210
Michael Blake
10. Language Rights, Literacy, and the Modern State 230
Jacob T. Levy
11. The Antinomy of Language Policy 250
Daniel M. Weinstock
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12. Beyond Personality: The Territorial and Personal Principles of
Language Policy Reconsidered 271
Denise G. Riaume
13. What Kind of Bilingualism? 296
Alan Patten
References 322
Index 340
List of Figures
7.1 The diversity clover 175
7.2 Diversity: benefits and costs 188
13.1 Perfect concentration 300
13.2 Imperfect concentration 303
13.3 Bilingual districts 303
List of Tables
6.1 Al, An, and Bo under four compensation regimes 159
163
6.2 Variable number of speakers of the dominant language