Language and Politics (24 Frames)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: June 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780748624522
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language and languages; Language policy; Political aspects
Description: 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, or at the level of political rhetoric, or indeed all the way up to the formationof national languages.