1. Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice versa)

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. Foreword ix
5. 1. Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice versa) 1
6. 2. Language and nation 22
7. 3. The social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness 43
8. 4. Politics embedded in language 64
9. 5. Taboo language and its restriction 86
10. 6. Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation 110
11. 7. Conclusion: Power, hegemony and choices 136
12. References 150
13. Index 163