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Old 03-20-2008, 08:36 PM
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linguistic ideology is a systematic construct about how languages carry or are invested with certain moral, social, and political values, giving rise to implicit assumptions that people have about a language or about language in general.

In simple terms it means how a language reflect cultural ideas. For example, you will note that Latin languages has a difference for words in term of gender and this shows you their ideals about the separate role of gender.
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