Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities

by Paul V. Kroskrity

Overview

In Regimes of Language, ten leading linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains: politics (without language) and language (without politics). Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, nationalism, and the maintenance of ethnic groups, on the one hand, and in the creation of national, ethnic, and professional identities, on the other. Moving beyond a preoccupation with ideologies of cultural "others," the volume includes reflexive analyses of European language philosophy and historical linguistics, US academic ideologies of language, political discourses by US journalists and elite image advisors, and the impact of Christian missionaries on indigenous peoples in the Papua New Guinea highlands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780933452626
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	02/23/2000
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	725,902
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.05(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Tables and Illustrations	ix
	Acknowledgments	x
1	Regimenting Languages: Language Ideological Perspectives	1
2	Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation	35
3	Whorfianism and the Linguistic Imagination of Nationality	85
4	Language Philosophy as Language Ideology: John Locke and Johann Gottfried Herder	139
5	Indonesian('s) Authority	205
6	Constructing a Tongan Nation-State through Language Ideology in the Courtroom	229
7	"Read My Article": Ideological Complexity and the Overdetermination of Promising in American Presidential Politics	259
8	Introducing Kaluli Literacy: A Chronology of Influences	293
9	Language Ideologies in the Expression and Representation of Arizona Tewa Ethnic Identity	329
	References	361
	Index	401