21.3140, Books: Sociolinguistics: McColl Millar

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Subject: Authority and Identity: McColl Millar
 

	
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Title: Authority and Identity 
Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic History of Europe before the Modern Age 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
	   http://www.palgrave.com
	

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=363139 


Author: Robert McColl Millar

Hardback: ISBN:  9780230232556 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 50.00


Abstract:

Language use is a principal means by which we distinguish ourselves and our 
group from others. In the modern age, language use often divides ethnic 
groups and nations: Germans are Germans because they speak German; 
French citizens must accept that Standard French is a central part of their 
national identity. Sociologists of language consider this equation of personal 
language use and national identity to be a product of the nationalism which 
developed in Europe from the eighteenth century on.

Authority and Identity: A Sociolinguistic History of Europe before the Modern 
Age is the first attempt to take the theoretical and methodological insights of 
macrosociolinguistics and apply them to the history of Europe before 1500. It 
analyses the recurrent tensions felt since writing technology first began to be 
used in Europe some 3,500 years ago between centrifugal and centripetal 
forces, demonstrating how similar linguistic ecologies can produce different 
kinds of linguistic authority and identity in individuals and groups due to 
differing sociolinguistic conditions. 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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