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Lionel Wee

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199737437

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737437.001.0001

Language, Justice, and the Deliberative Democratic Way

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(p. 163 ) 8 Language, Justice, and the Deliberative Democratic Way
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Language without Rights
Author(s):

Lionel Wee

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737437.003.0008

The aim of this chapter is to explore an alternative to language rights. This chapter argues that language needs to be consistently viewed as a set of constructions that serves as a semiotic resource, and that this view of language has to be situated within a model of justice that encourages a reflexive stance toward language practices, if we are make any progress in addressing linguistic discrimination. The chapter also suggests that there are features of the political model known as deliberative democracy that appear to be promising in accommodating a reflexive view of language as a semiotic resource.

Keywords:   constructions, deliberative democracy, hybridity, language awareness, linguistic markets, public reason, reflexivity, unavoidability

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