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Jan Blommaert (ed.), Language ideological debates. (Language, Power and Social Process, 2.) Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. xiii, 447. Hb $74.00, pb $25.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2004

Eric Hoenes Del Pinal
Affiliation:
Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, [email protected]

Extract

This volume contributes to the study of language ideology by focusing on the historical processes through which ideological positions about the relationship of language and society are produced and reproduced. Specifically, the contributors seek to contextualize the ways that language ideologies are contested in particular, often well publicized debates about language and its relationships to society. While ostensibly about linguistic issues, these debates, at one level or another, also address questions of power and national identity.

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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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