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Publication details [#44826]

Nichols, Robert Lee. 2006. ‘Struggling with Language’: Indigenous movements for Linguistic Security and the Politics of Local Community. Ethnicities 6 (1) : 27–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | linguistic diversity | political system | power

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper discusses how linguistic diversity has functioned as a barrier to political power centralization and acts as a ways to preserve a ‘politics of local community’in indigenous movements for linguistic security.