Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Foreword
- 1 Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice versa)
- 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
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Foreword
- 1 Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice versa)
- 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
- References
- Index
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- Language and Politics , pp. v - viPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2009