Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality by Charles L. Briggs, Richard Bauman

Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language

Charles L. Briggs, Richard Bauman

376 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how differences between languages legitimated social inequalities. It claims that savages and ...

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