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Mother Tongues and Nations : the Invention of the Native Speaker.

This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors, "mother tongue" and "native speaker," by historicizing their linguistic development. Early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 226.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Deconstructing the native speaker; Chapter 2: Nativity and the nation state; Chapter 3: Antiquity and the absence of ethnolinguistic nationalism; Chapter 4: From sermo patrius to lingua materna; Chapter 5: Abstracting the secular: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the eighteenth century; Chapter 6: Reconstructing Eden: Genealogies of language in the nineteenth century; Chapter 7: Scholarship in the maternal arboretum of language; Conclusion; Backmatter.