Language and Politics

<strong>Language and Politics</strong> brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which language ispolitical revealing how politics permeates language and viceversa t... » 

Language and Politics brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which language ispolitical revealing how politics permeates language and viceversa the linkbetween language and nation the social politics of language choice andlinguistic correctness the significance of language taboos the role ofrhetoric propaganda and interpretation and the power of hegemony andchoices. John E. Josephs previous book Language and Identity has earned awide readership among sociologists political scientists historians andanthropologists as well as linguists. «