Language, Identity, and Neo‐Imperial Power in Kurdistan and Ukraine: A Joint Review of Demet Arpacık's <i>Beyond Language</i> and Corinne A. Seals’ <i>Choosing a Mother Tongue</i>
Journal: Journal of Sociolinguistics
Year: 2025

While multilingualism has existed throughout human history, the modern pursuit of ethnolinguistic homogeneity—where minority or non-standard languages are construed as threats to political unity—is a relatively recent phenomenon, widely traced to the emergence of nation-states and their institutional structures in the aftermath of the French Revolution (see May 2017; see also Rampton et al. 2024, on securitization). Equally well documented are the struggles against the symbolic dominance of stan