Language Rights and Their Enforcement
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2012
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Abstract
This thesis is an attempt to analyze the relationship between normative theory and
the practical application of language rights. The intersection of political theory and
linguistics is a recent development, and to date the vast majority ofthe literature focuses
attention only on the concepts oflinguistic human rights or minority rights. Further,
these studies generally take a sociological lens. My goal is provide an example of an
alternative type of analysis with a normative focus on trying to understand what a
language right is, and how the theory behind language rights can help us understand the
outcomes of historical attempts to assert language rights in the modern (postWestphalian)
era.