Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East: A Historical Study

by John Myhill

This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at 'unification', based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish and Arabic, have been associated with aggression, fascism and genocide, while those based upon relatively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902722711X
• ISBN13: 9789027227119
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 300 Pages