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Reflections on scholarship and linguistic rights: A rejoinder to Jan Blommaert
Author(s) -
SkutnabbKangas Tove,
Phillipson Robert,
Kontra Mikloás
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of sociolinguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9841
pISSN - 1360-6441
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9481.00143
Subject(s) - scholarship , symbol (formal) , sociology , identity (music) , field (mathematics) , linguistics , epistemology , gender studies , political science , law , aesthetics , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
The attachment that many peoples have to their language is clear from the fact that it often becomes a symbol of their very existence (see, e.g. Fishman 1997). This is what makes this field interdisciplinary and vital for human rights but difficult to limit to traditional empirical research. There are elements of identity, access issues, and questions of ownership. (Michael Clyne, personal communication)