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Publication details [#58450]
Barchas-Lichtenstein, Jena. 2014. Jehovah's Witnesses, endangered languages, and the globalized textual community. Language & Communication 38 : 44–53. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study discusses Jehovah's Witnesses' utilization of the endangered Mexican Oaxaca Chontal language, as imposed by the Watch Tower Society institution. This study presents the notion of the globalizing textual community, in order to explicate how religious identity can suppress national, ethnic, and linguistic identities. A central device of this community is the “pure language” discourse, which makes language choice inapposite even as it offers a guarantee for comprehensive translation.