caa a22 4500 463241371 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-007-9050-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-007-9050-y Wright Sue School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, Park Building, King Henry lst Street, PO1 2DZ, Portsmouth, UK aut The Right to Speak One's Own Language: Reflections on Theory and Practice [Elektronische Daten] [Sue Wright] The right to speak one's own language is a right that has only recently been enshrined in law. At first this right was only a negative right (i.e. the right to use one's language in the private sphere without persecution or prejudice), not a positive right (i.e. the right to use one's language in the public space, to be educated in the language, to deal with the state in the language, etc.). As the Council of Europe's Charter for Regional and Minority Languages has been accepted and become law in a number of European states, we encounter a dilemma. In Europe, institutions such as the courts, bureaucracy and education, have tended to use a single standard. Now, minority and regional languages are rarely standardised. What should be done? This paper considers how languages have been treated as defined and static systems for the purposes of nation state language planning. Data from Italy and France reveal that this has become unacceptable practice today. It is at odds with our greater acceptance of diversity and our recognition of the essentially dialogic nature of language. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Regional or minority languages nationallicence language rights nationallicence language maintenance nationallicence theories of language nationallicence standardisation nationallicence heteroglossia nationallicence structuralist nationallicence post-modernist nationallicence nation building nationallicence Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/2(2007-06-01), 203-224 1568-4555 6:2<203 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9050-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9050-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wright Sue School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, Park Building, King Henry lst Street, PO1 2DZ, Portsmouth, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/2(2007-06-01), 203-224 1568-4555 6:2<203 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer