Language and Identity: National, Ethnic, Religious

✍ Scribed by John E. Joseph (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and identity. It will benefit students and researchers in a wide range of fields where identity is an important issue and who currently lack a single source to turn to for an overview of sociolinguistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Linguistic Identity and the Functions and Evolution of Language....Pages 15-40
Approaching Identity in Traditional Linguistic Analysis....Pages 41-66
Integrating Perspectives from Adjacent Disciplines....Pages 67-91
Language in National Identities....Pages 92-131
Case Study 1: the New Quasi-Nation of Hong Kong....Pages 132-161
Language in Ethnic/Racial and Religious/Sectarian Identities....Pages 162-193
Case Study 2: Christian and Muslim Identities in Lebanon....Pages 194-223
Afterword: Identity and the Study of Language....Pages 224-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-268

✦ Subjects

Sociolinguistics; Ethnicity Studies; Political Sociology; Anthropology; Self and Identity