What is a nation? What is national identity? And what do they have to do with language? This study provides answers to these questions from the perspective of linguistic epistemology. It presents identity research and performs linguistic discourse analysis, examining German national identity from 1998 to 2007 to show that knowledge expressed linguistically that is relevant to understanding constitutes the essential core of identity itself.

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Michael Drommler, University of Flensburg, Germany.