THE LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM OF NEOLIBERAL EMPIREFootnote¹

¹The article builds on a keynote lecture at the conference ‘Dialogue under occupation. The Discourse of Enactment, Transaction, Reaction, and Resolution,’ November 7–10, 2006, convened at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, by Dr. Larry Berlin. I am very grateful to Peter Ives, John Richardson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, and Sohail Karmani for insightful comments on a draft, and to Richard C. Smith for invaluable historical research.

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