"A [book] rich in detail and analysis, which anyone wanting to understand the language debate in Puerto Rico will find essential."--Arlene Davila, Syracuse Univ

This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact.

Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker's choice of language or style of discourse

This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The a