Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice versa)
Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice versa)
This chapter introduces real examples of the problems and tensions that make language and politics a central concern of applied linguistics. It discusses the politics of different ways of speaking; the politics of talking to others; the politics of what ‘the language’ is; the politics of which language to speak; the politics of policing the language; language, thought, and politicians; and language and choice.
Keywords: language, politics, applied linguistics, speaking, thought, politicians, choice
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