The Politics of Language

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1. Verbal Hygiene

   By Deborah Cameron

   Series: The Politics of Language

   BAAL Book Prize Winner 1996 In this award winning book Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. Instead of dismissing the practice of 'verbal hygiene', as a misguided and pernicious...

   Published October 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World

   From Colonization to Globalization

   By Clare Mar-Molinero

   Series: The Politics of Language

   Published May 24th 2000 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366-1922

   A Sourcebook

   By Tony Crowley, Dr Tony Crowley (S Editor)

   Series: The Politics of Language

   For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religious and cultural difference.Collected here for the first time are texts on language from the date of...

   Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge
4. English and the Discourses of Colonialism

   By Alastair Pennycook

   Series: The Politics of Language

   English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism. Yet Alastair Pennycook argues that this dramatic exit masks the crucial issue that the traces left by colonialism run deep.This challenging and provocative book looks...

   Published September 16th 1998 by Routledge
5. Linguistic Culture and Language Policy

   By Harold Schiffman

   Series: The Politics of Language

   By looking closely at the multilingual democracies of India, France and the USA, Harold F. Schiffman examines how language policy is primarily a social construct based on belief systems, attitudes and myths.Linguistic Culture and Language Policy exposes language policy as culture-specific, helping...

   Published March 4th 1998 by Routledge
6. Broken English

   Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings

   By Paula Blank

   Series: The Politics of Language

   Published October 9th 1996 by Routledge
7. Linguistic Ecology

   Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region

   By Peter Mühlhäusler

   Series: The Politics of Language

   Published January 3rd 1996 by Routledge
8. Language in History

   Theories and Texts

   By Dr Tony Crowley, Tony Crowley

   Series: The Politics of Language

   In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For...

   Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge