Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority

by Kathryn Woolard, Susan Gal, American Anthropological Association

The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the policing of correctness, folklore collections and linguistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900650428
• ISBN13: 9781900650427
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages