32.3387, Books: Language and Nationality: Bortone

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Subject: 32.3387, Books: Language and Nationality: Bortone

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:22:04
From: Lian Wilson [lian.wilson at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Language and Nationality: Bortone

 


Title: Language and Nationality 
Subtitle: Social Inferences, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Misconceptions 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-and-nationality-9781350071636/ 


Author: Pietro Bortone

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350071650 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePub
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350071667 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350071636 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

What role does language play in the formation and perpetuation of our ideas
about nationality and other social categories? And what role does it play in
the formation and perpetuation of nations themselves, and of other human
groups? "Language and Nationality" considers these questions and examines the
consequences of the notion that a language and a nationality are intrinsically
connected.

Pietro Bortone illustrates how our use of language reveals more about us than
we think, is constantly judged, and marks group insiders and group outsiders.
Casting doubt on several assumptions common among academics and non-academics
alike, he highlights how languages significantly differ among themselves in
structure, vocabulary, and social use, in ways that are often untranslatable
and can imply a particular culture. Nevertheless, he argues, this does not
warrant the way language has been used for promoting a national outlook and
for teaching us to identify with a nation. Above all, the common belief that
languages indicate nationalities reflects our intellectual and political
history, and has had a tremendous social cost. Bortone elucidates how the
development of standardized national languages – while having merits – has
fostered an unrealistic image of nations and has created new social
inequalities. He also shows how it has obscured the history of many languages,
artificially altered their fundamental features, and distorted the public
understanding of what a language is.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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