A political science approach integrates multidisciplinary case studies about culture and language from multiple perspectives. Culture and language are viewed broadly with topics ranging widely across the conflict/cooperation continuum of human activities. Case studies involve four perspectives on culture and language – linguistic perspectives, cultural perspectives, identity perspectives, and visual perspectives. Each chapter is self-standing with conclusions about the case study at hand. The final chapter integrates all the case studies with separate conclusions about each of the four perspectives.

Michael A. Morris is Professor of Political Science at Clemson University (USA) and also has a joint appointment as Professor of Languages at the same university. He has published extensively in the areas of maritime politics and language politics. He has had Visiting Fulbright professorships in Britain and Chile.

Contents: Michael A. Morris/Yanhua Zhang: Introduction – Richard Oliver Collin: Revolutionary Scripts: The Politics of Writing Systems – José M. Franco-Rodríguez: Linguistic Landscape and Language Maintenance: The Case of Los Angeles and Miami-Dade Counties – Clementina E. Adams: Music as Cultural and Linguistic Ambassador for Latin America – Michael A. Morris: Culture, Language and Global Issues – James Crombie: From Heavy to Light: Communication Technology and Vernaculars – Kimberley K. Williams: Maya Voices and Identity: Two Case Studies – R.G. Kainer: The Language Spoken and Unspoken on the Jerry Springer Show – Robert W. Smith: Ethics and Political Symbols: The Basis for Comparative Cultural Analysis – Plantu: Cross-Cultural Encounters through Cartoons – Michael A. Morris: Synthesis and Conclusion. Inhaltsverzeichnis