Language and Politics

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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: John E Joseph, John E. Joseph, John Earl Joseph
• Assisted by: Constantin V. Boundas (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2006
• EAN: 9780748624522
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-2452-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: 24 Frames; Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics; Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics; Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied; 24 Frames
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics