Language and Politics brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which language is political, revealing how politics permeates language (and vice-versa), the link between language and nation, the social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness, the significance of language taboos, the role of rhetoric, propaganda, and interpretation, and the power of hegemony and choices. John E. Joseph's previous book, Language and Identity has earned a wide readership among sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists as well as linguists.