Linguistic human rights as a source of policy guidelines: A critical assessment

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 448-460

  Grin, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Efficiency; Fairness; Language planning; Language policy; Language rights; Policy evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944441282     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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