Language

Authors
Publication date 2026
Host editors
  • Colin Flint
Book title Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Geopolitics
ISBN
  • 9781803928814
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781803928821
Series Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Geopolitics
Chapter 28
Pages (from-to) 114-117
Publisher Cheltenham: Elgar
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Language is closely associated to geopolitics. First, language is intimately linked to geopolitics because it is through language that claims are articulated and justified: language plays a fundamental role in the production, the circulation, and the consumption of geopolitical narratives. More specifically, spatial metaphors and analogies play an important role in these discourses. Second, conflicts about languages as collective goods and linguistic identities have often translated into territorial claims and as such have fueled many geopolitical conflicts.
Document type Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Language English
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