A short summary can hardly do justice to the wide scope of this book, which provides insights into a number of topics related to language and nationality ... Overall, this is a highly relevant and excellently researched book, one which will certainly inspire future research. * LINGUIST List * Bortone has triumphantly fulfilled his aims. He is a highly knowledgeable, clear-sighted, urbane and friendly guide through the labyrinthine complexities of the perceived relationship between language and nationality. His book can be read with profit and pleasure by linguists and non-linguists alike. * Folia Linguistica * Bortone brings new insight into questions of nationality and explicates the tangle of mis-information that so often confounds the topic. The expert will find meticulous attention to a wide range of phenomena associated with language and nationality, while the more general reader will find the book eminently readable. * Susan Samata, University of Sheffield, UK * Informative and well-written ... Phenomenally erudite and fluent in many languages, the author entertains the readers with little-known facts about similarities and dissimilarities of various languages from different parts of the globe, their historical evolution, and widespread perceptions thereof among scholars and the general public. In the process, he vividly demonstrates how the language people use is almost always perceived as a marker of their belonging. * Nationalities Papers *
