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What did Benedict Anderson argue about nationalism?
What did Benedict Anderson argue about nationalism?
- It is a religious belief
- It is a cultural product (correct)
- It is a simple ideology
- It is a biological trait
What did Benedict Anderson argue about nationalism?
What did Benedict Anderson argue about nationalism?
- It is an ideology that can be easily defined
- It is a complex cultural product (correct)
- It is a simple cultural product
- It is a biological trait
What did Stuart Hall believe about the nation?
What did Stuart Hall believe about the nation?
- It is alive and organic (correct)
- It is dead and static
- It is a political construct
- It is a product of economic factors
What did Stuart Hall believe about the nation?
What did Stuart Hall believe about the nation?
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What is linguistic change?
What is linguistic change?
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What is linguistic change according to the text?
What is linguistic change according to the text?
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Study Notes
- Benedict Anderson was a political scientist who wrote "Imagined Communities"
- Anderson argued that nationalism is not an ideology and is a complex cultural product
- Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-British sociologist and cultural theorist
- Hall believed that the nation is alive and organic and produces meanings through cultural representation
- Historical linguistics studies the fact that human languages change over time
- Linguistic change has structural and social embedding, as well as internal and external history
- Linguistic change is not progress or degeneration, but a neutral reality
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