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Language, religion and national identity in Europe and the Middle East : a historical study /
This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at 'unification', based upon languages which var...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
2006.
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| Colección: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at 'unification', based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish and Arabic, have been associated with aggression, fascism and genocide, while those based upon relatively homogeneous spoken languages, e.g. Czech, Norwegian and Ukrainian, have resulted in national liberation and international stability. It is. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027293510 9027293511 9789027227119 902722711X 1282155814 9781282155817 9786612155819 6612155817 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9463 ; |