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Language without Rights is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights. Synthesizing insights from a variety of disciplines, including linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, sociology and political philosophy, Wee demonstrates how the appeal to language rights faces a number of conceptual and practical problems, particularly because the discourse of rights is fundamentally inconsistent with the socially variable nature of language. The book also explores an alternative that is m
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lionel Wee, Lionel Wee
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199737420
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Sociology, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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