The Language that cannot speak its name

Ingrid Piller

The Language that cannot speak its name

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Abstract

Our understanding of the role of language in social life suffers from a particularly intractable problem: the terms we use to speak about language are often not very useful; on the contrary, they are confusing, obscurantist and create problems that we cannot even see because of our limited linguistic imagination.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 6 Apr 2016

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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The Language that cannot speak its name

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