Search for dissertations about: "linguistic rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words linguistic rights.

2. 1. Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey

   Author : Nesrin Ucarlar; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; resistance; emancipatory politics; transformative resistance; post-structuralism; deconstruction; nationalism; transnationalism; diaspora; European Union; Turkey; the Kurdish language; linguistic rights; trans-national outlook; minority rights; power; Kurdish intellectuals;

   Abstract : As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and nation-state building process in Turkey on the Kurdish-speaking community and the resistance engendered by the Kurdish intelligentsia in the European diaspora and in Turkey against the majority power delimiting the Kurdish linguistic rights. READ MORE

4. 2. Immigration, security and the public debate on US language policy : A critical discourse analysis of language attitudes in the United States of America

   Author : Soraya Tharani; Anna-Brita Stenström; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; national identity; societal security; language policy; ethnolinguistic conflict; human rights; language rights; ethnicity; multilingualism; immigration; critical discourse analysis; language attitudes; English language; Spanish language; United States;

   Abstract : The narrative of the United States is of a "nation of immigrants" in which the language shift patterns of earlier ethnolinguistic groups have tended towards linguistic assimilation through English. In recent years, however, changes in the demographic landscape and language maintenance by non-English speaking immigrants, particularly Hispanics, have been perceived as threats and have led to calls for an official English language policy. READ MORE

5. 3. Support, resistance and pragmatism : An examination of motivation in language policy in Kharkiv, Ukraine

   Author : Margrethe Søvik; Irina Sandomirskaja; Per-Arne Bodin; Lara Ryazanova Clarke; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language policy; language beliefs; language practices; language management; language conflict; motivation; language attitudes; combining methods; nation-building; linguistic rights; Ukraine; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The Ukrainian society has gone through vast changes since independence in 1991 and in this thesis some of these social changes are discussed through the prism of language policy. The main topic of the study is language policy (conceptualised as language practices, language beliefs, and language management) in the eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv. READ MORE

6. 4. Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

   Author : Agnes Löfgren; Leelo Keevallik; Angelika Linke; Emily Hofstetter; Beatrice Szczepek Reed; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Opera rehearsals; Social interaction; Multimodal interaction analysis; Ethnomethodological conversation analysis; Depictions; Multimodal gestalts; Proposals; Joint decision-making; Deontic rights; Joint activities; Co-operative action; Interactional histories; Operarepetitioner; Social interaktion; Multimodal interaktionsanalys; Etnometodologisk samtalsanalys; Gestaltningar; Multimodala gestalter; Förslag; Gemensamt beslutsfattande; Deontiska rättigheter; Gemensamma aktiviteter; Interaktionella historier;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, 2016), a communicative strategy based on iconicity, to create performance bodies, i.e. what the performers should do on stage to music. READ MORE

7. 5. Changing conceptions of literacies, language and development : Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa

   Author : Caroline Kerfoot; Christopher Stroud; Elsa Auerbach; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; adult literacy; adult basic education; agency; citizenship; critical applied linguistics; development; linguistic citizenship; multilingualism; reflexivity; resemiotisation; voice.; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism;

   Abstract : This study aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the circumstances under which adult education, in particular adult basic education, can support and occasionally initiate participatory development, social action and the realisation of citizenship rights. It traces developments in adult basic education in South Africa, and more specifically literacy and language learning, over the years 1981 to 2001, with reference to specific multilingual contexts in the Northern and Western Cape. READ MORE