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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807795103321

Autore

Joseph John Earl

Titolo

Language and politics / / John E. Joseph [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2006

ISBN

0-7486-7145-5

9786610501649

1-280-50164-2

0-7486-2697-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 170 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh textbooks in applied linguistics

Disciplina

401.4

Soggetti

Language and languages - Political aspects

Language policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Overview : how politics permeates language (and vice versa) -- 2. Language and nation -- 3. social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness -- 4. Politics embedded in language -- 5. Taboo language and its restriction -- 6. Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation -- 7. Conclusion : power, hegemony and choices.

Sommario/riassunto

Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker's choice of language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal politics are performed), or at the level of political rhetoric, or indeed all the way up to the formation of national languages. By bringing together this set of topics and highlighting how they are interrelated, the book will function well as a textbook on any applied or sociolinguistic course in which some or all of these various aspects of the politics of language are covered. The chapter headings include:  *How politics permeates language (and vice-versa)  *Language and nation  *The social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness  *Politics embedded in language  *Taboo language and its restriction  *Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation  *Power, hegemony and choices