January 2009
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3 Citations
California Journal of Politics and Policy
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January 2009
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47 Reads
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3 Citations
California Journal of Politics and Policy
... There seems to be a consensus in the existing scholarship that in societies with diverse linguistic reservoirs, language use or language choice is not naturally produced, but the result of political engineering (Brass 2009;A. Liu 2011;Liu and Ricks 2012;Medina et al. 2009;Sonntag 2009). 4 Moreover, in many cases, linguistic cleavages have been intentionally mobilized by political elites for various reasons, for example, to establish a minimum winning coalition or compete for dominance in elections (Brass 2009;A. ...
January 2009
California Journal of Politics and Policy