Language as Social Control

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" LANGUAGE POLICY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL CONTROL
There are some 2,000 languages each with its own literature. Yet, in India alone there are 1,600 dialects. Whatever differences there may be between a language and a dialect is a matter of definitions about which there is wide controversy. One question of especial interest to sociologists and communication scholars is how these systems of communication are affected by people who use them, on the one hand, and by people who control them, on the other hand. Indeed, most researchers believe that there is an ?lite who, in practically all cultures and societies, has a particularly strong impact on the selection, shaping, standardization, use, and socio-economic power of the language or languages of a polity. The ruling class--whether a minority or a majority--view their chosen language as an ethnocentric.."

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