What can a widely circulated print-language permit even when readers speak different dialects?
Answer & explanation
Shared reading without identical everyday speech.
Print standardization concerns forms that circulate in writing. Spoken variation can persist. Neither shared readership nor standardization fixes a single necessary political border.
Imagined communities
Chapter 3 · The Origins of National Consciousness
AI reviewed · sources pending · version 9
Generally accurate according to an AI review. Sources and this book association have not been verified.