Battarbee, K.;
(2019)
Languages Canada: The Paradoxes of Linguistic Inclusivity –
Colonial/Founding, Aboriginal and Immigrant Language Rights.
[Letter].
London Journal of Canadian Studies
, 34
(5)
pp. 79-102.
10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2019v34.005..
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Abstract
This article approaches the question of inclusivity in contemporary Canadian society through the lens of official language policy. Although Canada has well-developed bilingual policies for English and French at the federal and provincial levels, the only jurisdictions which (at the time of writing) afford official language status to Aboriginal languages in addition to English and French are the Northwest Territories (nine First Nations and Inuit languages) and Nunavut (the Inuit language/s). The article situates the development of these territorial language policies within the contexts of Canadian history, the emergence of language policy more generally in Western societies, and the human rights revolution, and offers a tentative evaluation of them in terms of inclusivity, noting the paradox that inclusive recognition of the territories’ indigenous languages has not been extended to the immigrant languages, whose speakers partly outnumber the smaller Aboriginal-language communities, as well as the daunting problems faced in turning official recognition into practical implementation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Languages Canada: The Paradoxes of Linguistic Inclusivity – Colonial/Founding, Aboriginal and Immigrant Language Rights |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2019v34.005. |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2019v34.005. |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019, The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
| Keywords: | official language policy, inclusivity, indigenous and minority languages, human rights, Northwest Territories |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10094500 |
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