Very Short Introductions
A Very Short Introduction
Getzler, Joshua
Very Short Introductions
A Very Short Introduction
Getzler, Joshua
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This book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relationship between language and the state. Written in a concise and engaging style, the book is suitable for readers from all backgrounds who are interested in the interaction between language and politics.
This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the numeral classifier systems of Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages.
Inflammatory Language investigates slurs, epithets that derogate purely on the basis of group-membership. Una Stojnić and Ernie Lepore argue, against prevailng views, that the distinctive pejorative effect of slurs is constituted by associations attached to and triggered by their articulatory form.
