This volume contributes to the study of language
ideology by focusing on the historical processes through which
ideological positions about the relationship of language and
society are produced and reproduced. Specifically, the contributors
seek to contextualize the ways that language ideologies are
contested in particular, often well publicized debates about
language and its relationships to society. While ostensibly
about linguistic issues, these debates, at one level or another,
also address questions of power and national identity.