Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
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...
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Ten linguistic anthropologists deconstruct how language philosophies pose as language ideologies, e.g. in regard to Western philosophical thought, US presidential politics, introducing literacy, and the identity of indigenous peoples such as the Arizona Tewa. Based on a 1994 seminar. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of Tables and IllustrationsixAcknowledgmentsx1Regimenting Languages: Language Ideological Perspectives12Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation353Whorfianism and the Linguistic Imagination of Nationality854Language Philosophy as Language Ideology: John Locke and Johann Gottfried Herder1395Indonesian('s) Authority2056Constructing a Tongan Nation-State through Language Ideology in the Courtroom2297"Read My Article": Ideological Complexity and the Overdetermination of Promising in American Presidential Politics2598Introducing Kaluli Literacy: A Chronology of Influences2939Language Ideologies in the Expression and Representation of Arizona Tewa Ethnic Identity329References361Index401
