Language Policy and Language Issues in the Successor States of the Former USSR (Current Issues in Language and Society (Unnumbered).)

this Book Looks At The Question Of Language Rights: The Rights Of Minorities To Remain Monolingual If They So Wish And The Rights Of Governments To Promote The Language Of The Majority As The Language Of The State. The Central Question Is Once Again The Thorny Problem Of Whether Linguistic Rights Are Fundamental Human Rights, And Therefore Inalienable And Individual, Or Whether They Are Group Rights, Since Communication Necessarily Involves More Than One Individual. The Context Of This Discussion Is The Situation Of The Russian Speakers In Latvia And Kyrgyzstan. This text looks at the question of language rights: the rights of minorities to remain monolingual if they so wish and the rights of governments to promote the language of the majority as the official language of the state. The central question is once again the thorny problem of whether linguistic rights are fundamental human rights, and therefor inalienable and individual, or whether they are group rights, since communication necessarily involves more than one individual. The context of this disussion is the Russian speakers in Latvia and Kyrgzstan Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 ISBN......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Editorial......Page 5 Between Russian and European Hegemony: Current Language Policy in the Baltic States......Page 10 Ethno-linguistic Relations in Contemporary Latvia: Mirror Image of the Previous Dispensation?......Page 52 Social Conditions for the Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights through Multicultural Policies: The Case of the Kyrgyz Republic......Page 61 Kyrgyzstan: The Political and Linguistic Context......Page 89 This book explores the issue of language rights: the rights of minorities to remain monolingual and the rights of governments to promote the language of the majority as the language of the state. It questions whether linguistic rights are fundamental human rights or whether they are group rights, since communication involves more than one person. The central question to this discussion is whether linguistic rights are fundamental human rights, and therefore inalienable and individual, or whether they are group rights, since communication necessarily involves more than one individual