International Journal of the Sociology of Language 217 (2012)
Special issue titled “The Kurdish Linguistic Landscape: Vitality, Linguicide and Resistance” edited by Jaffer Sheyholislami, Amir Hassanpour, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Kurdish: Linguicide, resistance, and hope
AMIR HASSANPOUR, JAFFER SHEYHOLISLAMI, and TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS
2. Kurdish in Iran: A case of restricted and controlled tolerance
JAFFER SHEYHOLISLAMI
3. The indivisibility of the nation and its linguistic divisions
AMIR HASSANPOUR
4. Modernity and the linguistic genocide of Kurds in Turkey
DESMOND FERNANDES
5. Turkey’s Kurdish language policy
WELAT ZEYDANLIOǦLU
6. Untying the tongue-tied: Ethnocide and language politics
UǦUR ÜMIT ÜNGÖR
7. Sociolinguistic situation of Kurdish in Turkey: Sociopolitical factors and language use patterns
ERGIN ÖPENGIN
8. Book review: Politics and language ideology in Kurdish lexicography
AMIR HASSANPOUR
9. Concluding remarks
TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS, JAFFER SHEYHOLISLAMI, and AMIR HASSANPOUR
Book review. Politics and language ideology in Kurdish lexicography
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