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Nyelvi jogok, nyelvpolitika a kisebbségek felsőoktatásában
Language Rights and Language Policy in Minority Higher Education

Author(s): Viktória Ferenc
Subject(s): Language studies, Education, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Higher Education , Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Ethnic Minorities Studies, EU-Legislation
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: education; higher education; minorities; language rights; human rights; Hungary; language policy;

Summary/Abstract: The continuance of a minority community and the perhaps flamboyant use of their native language is highly determined by the rights a given majority state gives this community. In this paper I will show the situation with and the state of Hungarian minority higher education outside Hungary, while looking into persons’ language rights and language in the context of education policy trends. After giving a short introduction to recent developments in the field of Linguistic Human Rights – with a special focus on someone’s right to get (higher) education in one’s mother tongue – I will illustrate the attitudes of Hungary and of neighbouring countries regarding such a right, both in theory and in practice; this will all be based on an analysis of degrees of ratification and implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in different European states.

  • Issue Year: 21/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 67-86
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Hungarian