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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.
In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the
nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of
Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators,
representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal
hate crime. While lynching histories and memories have received
attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary
studies of traditional civil rights memorials exist, contemporary
studies often fail to examine the politicized nature of the spaces.
This volume represents the first investigation of the National
Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, both of which
strategically make clear the various links between America's
history of racial terror and contemporary mass incarceration
conditions, the mistreatment of juveniles, and capital punishment.
Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching focuses on
several key social agents and organizations that played vital roles
in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to
the passage of the act. Marouf A. Hasian Jr. and Nicholas S.
Paliewicz argue that the advocacy of attorney Bryan Stevenson, the
work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and the efforts of
curators at Montgomery's new Legacy Museum all contributed to the
formation of a rhetorical culture that set the stage at last for
this hallmark lynching legislation. The authors examine how the EJI
uses spaces of remembrance to confront audiences with
race-conscious messages and measure to what extent those messages
are successful.
The concept of 'populism' is currently used by scholars, the media
and political actors to refer to multiple and disparate
manifestations and phenomena from across both the left and the
right ends of the political spectrum. As a result, it defies neat
definition, as scholarship on the topic has shown over the last 50
years. In this book, Sebastian Moreno Barreneche approaches
populism from a semiotic perspective and argues that it constitutes
a specific social discourse grounded on a distinctive narrative
structure that is brought to life by political actors that are
labelled 'populist'. Conceiving of populism as a mode of semiotic
production that is based on a conception of the social space as
divided into two groups, 'the People' and 'the Other', this book
uses semiotic theory to make sense of this political phenomenon.
Exploring how the categories of 'the People' and 'the Other' are
discursively constructed by populist political actors through the
use of semiotic resources, the ways in which meaning emerges
through the oppositions between imagined collective actors is
explained. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America and South
America, The Social Semiotics of Populism presents a systematic
semiotic approach to this multifaceted political concept and
bridges semiotic theory and populism studies in an original manner.
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