Linguistic Genocide in Education -- Or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?

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Summary: A necessary reference, not only for linguists
Review: 'Big' languages are killing their 'smaller' brothers andsisters. Education is their main tool to realize'genocide'. Linguistic diversity is as important as biodiversity and cultural diversity in our globe. We cannot imagine the world not having the culture and the human beings without language. The ecological environment is worsening in the whole world. This book is one of the best and complete works in linguistic ecology and diversity. It is not only for linguists, educational workers and politicians, for any peoples, who interested in the future of humankind, it is also a significant reference. Because, If the language is not longer in the existence, the endangering not only is the linguists, and the whole human beings.

Rating:
Summary: A necessary reference, not only for linguists
Review: From some days, I am waiting to introduce the interesting book for you via Web. 'Big' languages are killing their 'smaller' brothers and sisters. Education is their main tool to realize 'genocide'. Linguistic diversity is as important as biodiversity and cultural diversity in our globe. We cannot imagine the world not having the culture and the human beings without language. The ecological environment is worsening in the whole world. This book is one of the best and complete works in linguistic ecology and diversity. It is not only for linguists, educational workers and politicians, for any peoples, who interested in the future of humankind, it is also a significant reference. Because, If the language is not longer in the existence, the endangering not only is the linguists, and the whole human beings.

Rating:
Summary: A necessary reference, not only for linguists
Review: From some days, I am waiting to introduce the interesting book for you via Web. 'Big' languages are killing their 'smaller' brothers and sisters. Education is their main tool to realize 'genocide'. Linguistic diversity is as important as biodiversity and cultural diversity in our globe. We cannot imagine the world not having the culture and the human beings without language. The ecological environment is worsening in the whole world. This book is one of the best and complete works in linguistic ecology and diversity. It is not only for linguists, educational workers and politicians, for any peoples, who interested in the future of humankind, it is also a significant reference. Because, If the language is not longer in the existence, the endangering not only is the linguists, and the whole human beings.

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Summary: A brilliant and badly needed polemic
Review: Throughout history, dominant groups have suppressed the languages
of minorities. Today, due to mass communication and powerful,
centralized states, minority languages are at risk the world
over. While other books emphasize the loss to science (through
the restriction of the linguistic database) and to cultural
diversity entailed by the loss of minority languages, this book
focusses on the moral, legal, and political rights of speakers
of minority languages. It analyzes carefully the situations in which
they may find themselves and the ways in which they may
respond. The book is explicitly polemical: the author's goal is
to defend the rights of speakers of minority languages. The treatment is careful and detailed,
with extensive definitions, examples, references, and even exercises for the reader.
The suppression of minority languages is placed in a context of
loss of biodiversity, globalization, and the more general loss of human rights by minority groups.
Not everyone will want to read this 800 page tome, but it is a must for anyone seriously interested in the loss
of linguistic and cultural diversity or in human rights.