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Language in history : theories and texts /

In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crowley, Tony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Colección:Politics of language.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. For and against Saussure
  • 2. For and against Bakhtin
  • 3. Wars of words : the roles of language in eighteenth-century Britain
  • 4. Forging the nation : language and cultural nationalism in nineteenth-century Ireland
  • 5. Science and silence : language, class, and nation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain
  • 6. Conclusion : back to the past, or on to the future? : language in history.