Douglas A Kibbee

Language and the Law

Linguistic Inequality in America

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the political and legal consequences of linguistic inequality in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781107623118
• ISBN-10: 1107623111
• Artikelnr.: 45157385

Autorenporträt

Douglas A. Kibbee is Professor Emeritus in the Department of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of For to Speke Frenche Trewely (1991), co-author of French: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge, 2006) and editor of Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Equality, liberty, and fairness in America
2. Language and democracy
3. Language in the legal system
4. Language and education
5. Government, public services and the English-only movement
6. Language in the workplace
7. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index of court cases
Index of names
General index.