CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully select
This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Prof