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Informationen zum Autor John E. Joseph is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and currently holds a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. His previous book, Language and Identity (2004) has found a wide readership among sociologists, political scientists, historians, anthropologists and others besides linguists, many of whom will want to read his Language and Politics as its successor and complement. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Aims to define and introduce language and politics as a paradigm of intellectual study for the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Overview; 2. Language and nation; 3. The social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness; 4. Politics embedded in language; 5. Taboo language and its restriction; 6. Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation; 7. Conclusion: power, hegemony and choices.
