Handbook of language ethnic identity.pptVIP

Handbook of language ethnic identity Chapter 6: Nationalism by William Safran The Role of Language Elements of National sentiment include: cultural heritage, history/memory, kinship (or its myth) – What role does language play? These elements are all expressed and distributed through a language What comes first – collective identity or language? Sometimes a language has led to collective identity, and sometimes collective identity has led to the rediscovery/elaboration of a language Language – Nationalism – Statehood Nationalism: “a principle which holds that the political and national unit