Language and identity
Subtitle: an introduction
By: John Edwards.
Series: Key topics in sociolinguistics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521873819; 9780521696029
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Group identity; Language and languages -- Political aspects; Identity politics; Nationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 2. Identity, the individual and the group; title: 3. Identifying ourselves; title: 4. Language, dialect and identity; title: 5. Dialect and identity: beyond standard and nonstandard; title: 6. Language, religion and identity; title: 7. Language, gender and identity; title: 8. Ethnicity and nationalism; title: 9. Assessments of nationalism; title: - 10. Language and nationalism; title: 11. Language planning and language ecology.