Language and Nationality: Social Inferences, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Misconceptions

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 j...