ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Relation, Italian Unification
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E(cid:395)ui(cid:396)ed li(cid:374)guisti(cid:272) (cid:449)o(cid:396)k to de(cid:272)ide (cid:449)hat (cid:448)a(cid:396)ieties of speaki(cid:374)g (cid:449)e(cid:396)e (cid:862)la(cid:374)guages(cid:863) Are not linguistic, but political/identity labels: examples of languages that are very similar and the speakers can understand each other: Russian and ukrainian, the same goes for czech and slovak, danish and norwegian, serbian and. One language but speakers cannot always understand each other. Because their dialects are more different from each other than russian from ukrainian or hindi from urdu. Some chinese dialects: mandarin ( standard chinese), yue, Typically lack a common distinctive, local language are derived from colonial state formations. Political but weak imagined community can be very weak politically as well. It strengthens the state (a political unit) National and other cultural identities can also mask politics (depoliticize social relation)
