Language and identity
By: by John Edwards.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521873819
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Group identity; Language and languages -- Political aspects; Identity politics; Nationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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; title: Endnotes; title: Glossary; title: References.