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Voices of modernity language ideologies and the politics of inequality
Argues that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how apparently objective differences between languages legitimated social inequalities
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England New York
Cambridge University Press
2003
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| Colección: | Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Making language and making it safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Locke; 3 Creating modernity's others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England: antiquarian and philological inflections; 4 The critical foundations of national epic and the rhetoric of authenticity: Hugh Blair and the Ossian controversy; 5 Language, poetry, and Volk in eighteenth-century Germany: Johann Gottfried Herder's construction of tradition