Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933452624 ISBN 13: 9780933452626

Publisher: SAR Press, 2000

Synopsis

In Regimes of Language, ten leading linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains: politics (without language) and language (without politics). Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, nationalism, and the maintenance of ethnic groups, on the one hand, and in the creation of national, ethnic, and professional identities, on the other. Moving beyond a preoccupation with ideologies of cultural "others," the volume includes reflexive analyses of European language philosophy and historical linguistics, US academic ideologies of language, political discourses by US journalists and elite image advisors, and the impact of Christian missionaries on indigenous peoples in the Papua New Guinea highlands.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul V. Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of "Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country."

About this edition

• Publisher: SAR Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0933452624
• ISBN 13: 9780933452626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Kroskrity Paul V.