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Language policy and the formation of national identity: diverse experiences
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Bostock, WW, Language policy and the formation of national identity: diverse experiences, GSTF Journal of Law and Social Sciences, 5, (2) pp. 1-7. ISSN 2251-2853 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Official URL: http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/jlss/article/vi...
DOI: doi:10.5176/2251-2853_5.2.196
Abstract
This article will examine some of the ways that political leaders attempt to create, control, and otherwise manage national identity through language policy. This appraisal will be assisted by some historical and contemporary case studies demonstrating the use of language policy in this process, drawn
from the Third Reich and Nazi-occupied Poland, Sri Lanka, and pre- and post-majority rule South Africa. This article reaches the general conclusion that it is possible to influence the formation of national identity through language policy by using language to: (i) define the identity boundary, (ii) identify the nation through its prevailing ontology, and (iii) manage feelings - particularly fears, doubts, and uncertainties - for selected purposes. Whether a sense of national identity has been calmed or disturbed will have implications for order or conflict, peace or war, and accommodation or genocide.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | language, identity, language policy,Nazi Germany, Sri Lanka, South Africa |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | Political science not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Bostock, WW (Dr William Bostock) |
ID Code: | 114277 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2017-02-09 |
Last Modified: | 2017-06-27 |
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