trans. Andrew P. McCormick
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 257 pp.; 12 color ills., 147 b/w. $95.00
Wondering about the subtitle of Charles E. Cohen's book, I asked two distinguished linguists at Rutgers, Jane Grimshaw and Alan Prince, to explain the difference between "dialect" and "language." His one-word answer: "politics." Her explication of this terse reply: an allusion to Max Weinreich's definition of language as dialect with an army and a navy - a ...