Indo-Europeanization - Day One: Elite Recruitment and the Beginnings of Language Politics

By Harald Haarmann

Language politics, or the instrumentalization of language by those with political power, has a long history. The lives of human beings and their activities inevitably unfold within a web of power relations, and their means of communication must be viewed in the same context. Although the agendas of language politics have been widely

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447067179
• ISBN13: 9783447067171
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 174 Pages