Language, Nation And Power: An Introduction by UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN . Unknown Year . English
Language, Nation and Power provides students with a discussion of the ways in which language has been (and is being) used to construct national (or ethnic) identity. It focuses on the processes by which a language can be planned and standardized and what the results of these processes are. Particular emphasis is given to the historical and social effects which nationalism has had on the development of language since the French Revolution. For students of linguistics, sociology and politics.
Categories: Literary Fiction
About the Author
Robert McColl Millar is Professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Born in 1966 in Elderslie (of 'Braveheart' fame) in the west of Scotland, he has been obsessed with language for as long as he can remember. A native speaker of Scots and from a Gaelic-speaking background, language variation and change and the sociology of language are never far from his thoughts. A graduate of Glasgow and London Universities, he has held academic posts in Canada, Finland, Austria and Norway. He is married to Sandra, a schoolteacher, who is originally from Luxembourg. They have a daughter, Mairi, born in 2008.
