Language and Nationality Social Inferences Cultural Differences and Linguistic Misconceptions 1st Edition by Pietro Bortone ISBN 1350071641 978-1350071643
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ISBN 10: 1350071641
ISBN 13: 978-1350071643
Author: Pietro Bortone
What role does language play in the formation and perpetuation of our ideas about nationality and other social categories? And what role does it play in the formation and perpetuation of nations themselves, and of other human groups? Language and Nationality considers these questions and examines the consequences of the notion that a language and a nationality are intrinsically connected. Pietro Bortone illustrates how our use of language reveals more about us than we think, is constantly judged, and marks group insiders and group outsiders. Casting doubt on several assumptions common among academics and non-academics alike, he highlights how languages significantly differ among themselves in structure, vocabulary, and social use, in ways that are often untranslatable and can imply a particular culture. Nevertheless, he argues, this does not warrant the way language has been used for promoting a national outlook and for teaching us to identify with a nation. Above all, the common belief that languages indicate nationalities reflects our intellectual and political history, and has had a tremendous social cost. Bortone elucidates how the development of standardized national languages – while having merits – has fostered an unrealistic image of nations and has created new social inequalities. He also shows how it has obscured the history of many languages, artificially altered their fundamental features, and distorted the public understanding of what a language is.
Table of contents:
1 Language labelling us explicitly
Names
Surnames
2 Ways of speaking
Nurture and nature in linguistic peculiarities: gender
Expressed linguistic dislikes
Underlying social dislikes
Examples: vocabulary, accent, syntax, whole languages
Real repercussions of linguistic attitudes
Writing and its consequences
3 Preference for the linguistically similar
Language as a social border
Linguistic accommodation
Linguistic divergence
Bilingualism
Second language learning
4 Linguistic diversity
The different features of other languages
Equal complexity but not quite
Differences in lexical semantics
The position of multilinguals
New words are coined or adopted
5 Culture hidden in the language
Culture in the etymology
Presumed translations
Implicit connotations and culture references
Cultural nuances in cognates
Cultural explanations for lexical gaps
English words reflecting English concepts
Linguistic notions of (im)politeness
Language-based collective images
How to not say things
6 The effects of languages on cognition
The ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Popular perceptions and Sapir-Whorf Concrete evidence for linguistic relativity Imposing an outlook together with a language? Considerations against the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’
Thinking beyond language
7 Let there be a nation
Nations and ethnicities
The emergence of nations
Maps and borders
The rise of nations
Consequences of the ideal of the nation state
The nation-based outlook
8 Creating nations and languages
Teaching a national identity
9 The importance of writing
Religious texts
National literature, arts, and history
Language creating nationality
Language conferring perdurance
Consequences of national languages
Nations formed in parallel with their standard languages
Merits of a national language
Prescriptivism and anti-prescriptivism among modern linguists
Imposing whose standard?
Language as individual capital
Contesting the concept of native speaker
10 More consequences of national languages
Overstating the language
Increased requests for ‘language’ status
Stressing or fabricating differences between languages
Purism
Insisting on language boundaries
Intolerance towards minority languages
The fears underlying the opposition to alloglossy
Rejecting the language of the ‘other’ – but not always
More tolerance in pre-national times
Campaigners for the national language
11 Language and nationality, a hasty equation
Equating language and nationality
The equation in philology
The rise of the equation
The effects of the equation
The merits of the equation
Problems with the equation
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