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Speech is core to our humanity. In a key sense, we ‘talked ourselves’ free from biological determinism (Steiner, 1998, [1975], pp. 245–6; Tallis, 1999, pp. 272–3; Vygotsky, 1986, [1934], pp. 68–95, p. 256). Speech is obviously fundamental to our capacity to assert political rights, and determine, ‘what is just and unjust’ (Aristotle, Politics, 1992, p. 60; [350bc, 1253a16]). Rights therefore mean little if they do not relate to speech.
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Pupavac, V. (2012). Contesting Human Rights, Language and Politics. In: Language Rights. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284044_1
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