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So for example various words like democracy and the like have the same shared meaning to Swiss people in the four national languages. But, the meaning is not the same between Swiss German and Bavarian German.
One could argue that Irish middle class values are closer to British middle class values than they are to working class values. So what is the relevance of the "national" boundary? Of course subjective statements like that are subject to hypothesising and testing, and may actually be untrue. But what I am objecting to is the a priori nation state focus of the methodology. Why not test by class, age group, occupational grouping, public/private sector, as well nas nationality, and see which (somewhat artificially defined) factor is the most important, rather than assuming that the nation state is some sort of ahistorical and pre-created given. notes from no w here
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