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Language Wars
O Croidheain, Caoimhghin
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/04/language-wars/Date Written: 2017-09-04 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21399 Issues of language are examined, in particular the maintenance of power by a linguistic or political majority through imposition of linguistic norms and beliefs on a minority. Abstract: -- Excerpt: If it is a truism that after a war the victor writes the history, then it could be argued that the victor also chooses the language in which the history will be written. If it is a war of the colonised against the coloniser then the language takes on a special significance as typically the coloniser imposes their language on the colonised. Subject Headings |