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Accommodating Linguistic Difference: Five Normative Models of Language Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Xabier Arzoz
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Abstract

Five language rights models: human rights model, ‘old’ minority rights model, ‘new’ minority rights model, indigenous peoples rights model, and official-language rights model – Different philosophical and legal foundations and very different concerns: personal autonomy and development, social integration and cohesion, ethnocultural preservation, and political integration – Sociological and historical context of each state is key factor in the type of linguistic accommodation sought by minorities

Keywords

Language rightsMinority rightsHuman rightsInternational Covenant on Civil and Political RightsFramework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesEuropean Charter for Regional or Minority LanguagesDirective 77/486/EECEU citizenship
Type
Articles
Information
European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 102 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2010

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