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Publication details [#47462]

Bauman, Richard and Charles L. Briggs. 2003. Voices of Modernity. Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality. Cambridge University Press. 374 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | language use | modernization | scientific language | social status

Annotation

This study addresses the vital role in modern history of the conscious development of new ways of thinking about language, especially the discovery of how differences between languages justified social inequalities.