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Language and Politics
Contributor(s): Joseph, John E. (Author)

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 ISBN: 074862452X     ISBN-13: 9780748624522
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
OUR PRICE: $133.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: June 2006
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Annotation: "Language and Politics" brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which language is political, revealing how politics permeates language (and vice-versa); the link between language and nation; the social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness; the significance of language taboos; the role of rhetoric, propaganda, and interpretation; and the power of hegemony and choices. John E. Joseph's previous book, "Language and Identity" has earned a wide readership among sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists as well as linguists.

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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
Dewey: 401.4
LCCN: 2006445336
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: 24 Frames
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.96 lbs) 176 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
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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
 
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