Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice versa) -- 2. Language and nation -- 3. The social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness -- 4. Politics embedded in language -- 5. Taboo language and its restriction -- 6. Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation -- 7. Conclusion: Power, hegemony and choices -- References -- Index