The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Political Conflict

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Moving beyond familiar discussions of ethnic conflict, this Handbook presents a bold rethinking of how language shapes identity, power, and violence. With contributions from leading scholars in linguistics, political science, and public policy, it presents global case studies alongside new analytic tools for the study of language and global politics. It introduces "language conflict" as a clearer and more useful framework-one that brings linguistic structure, institutional policy, and communicative inequality into focus. Split into four sections, chapters cover topics such as hate speech, language rights, transitional justice, education policy, and postcolonial literature, spanning contexts from Cameroon to Catalonia, and from Guatemala to Sri Lanka. Together, these chapters show how language is not simply a cultural marker, but a political force that shapes collective identities, nationalism, and resistance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in language policy, multilingual governance, and the deep entanglement of language with political life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-30
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
Antal sidor:654
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009425278

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Stanley Dubinsky has taught Linguistics at the University of South Carolina since 1991. His recent publications include Language Conflict and Language Rights (with Davies, 2018, CUP), The Israeli Conflict System (with Starr, 2015, Routledge) and Understanding Language Through Humor, 2e (2026, CUP). Michael Gavin is an Associate Professor of English and a Global Studies Associate Faculty at the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies at the University of South Carolina. He co-founded the Language Conflict Project and develops interdisciplinary methods bridging linguistics, political science, and digital humanities. Harvey Starr is the Dag Hammarsjköld Professor in International Affairs Emeritus, Political Science, University of South Carolina. He is the past president of the International Studies Association, the Peace Science Society (International), and the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association, with a primary research focus on inter-state and intra-state conflict processes.

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Introduction. Language and the study of political conflict Michael Gavin, Harvey Starr and Stanley Dubinsky; Part I. Identity: 1. Linguistic identity: fact and fiction Florian Coulmas; 2. Group formation: language as a sociopolitical tool Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good; 3. Language rights and linguistic attitudes in Afro-Latin America: the Afro-Bolivian case Pamela Jimenez Lizama and Sandro Sessarego; 4. Hate speech and political violence Innocent Chiluwa; 5. Perceived language threat and political trust Mike Medeiros and Jean-Philippe Gauvin; 6. Language conflict and symbolic power: Arabic as a case study Yasir Suleiman-Malley; Part II. Conflict: 7. International relations, language, and the nature of conflict in the contemporary world system Harvey Starr; 8. Language, ethnicity, and civil war Nils-Christian Bormann and Manuel Vogt; 9. Linguistic and territorial integrity in the Ukraine–Russia conflict Stanley Dubinsky, Michael Gavin, A. J. Murphy and Harvey Starr; 10. Language conflict (prevention) in Europe: the role of the supranational level Jeroen Darquennes; 11. Language in post-conflict transitional justice and reconciliation Adriana Del Socorro Álvarez Correa, Olga Lucía Arbeláez Rojas, Kimi King, James Meernik and Sergio Pérez Burgos; 12. Language assimilation and linguistic diversity in Israel Eric Fleisch and Zaryab Iqbal; 13. State-sponsored violence and Maya-speaking subjects: erasure, annihilation, and resilience Brigittine M. French; 14. The suppression and instrumentalization of language in Kashmir Nitasha Kaul; Part III. Policy: 15. Minorities, language, and education in the era of superdiversity Stephen May; 16. Against language: institutional constructions and deconstructions Lionel Wee; 17. Security versus language rights? Miklós Kontra and István Csernicskó; 18. Language education, (in)securitization, and peacebuilding Constadina Charalambous; 19. Language conflict, usage, and prescriptivism in South Africa: a historical and political perspective Sebolelo Mokapela and Russell H. Kaschula; 20. Do language policies really make a difference?: Education and peacebuilding in post-conflict Sri Lanka Sreemali Herath; 21. Language dominance and marginalization in Botswana Budzani Gabanamotse-Mogara and Andy Chebanne; 22. Language conflicts and language policy in Italy Ilaria Fiorentini and Silvia Luraghi; Part IV. Methods: 23. Understanding linguistic difference: key concepts for the study of language conflict Stanley Dubinsky and A. J. Murphy; 24. Ethnographic research for languages in conflict: insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina Marija Runić and Jelena Božović; 25. Language conflict and the linguistic landscape: exploring language, identity, and socio-political dynamics in Puerto Rico Rafael Jiménez-Baralt and Sandro Sessarego; 26. Language policy, conflict, and the evaluation of linguistic justice Michele Gazzola and Cecilia Gialdini; 27. Words as data in political science and corpus linguistics Michael Gavin; 28. Postcolonial literature and the study of conflict John Marx.