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Linguistic authority, language ideology, and metaphor : the Czech orthography wars /

How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bermel, Neil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.
Colección:Language, power, and social process ; 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1 Orthographic reform and language planning
  • Chapter 2 Standard Czech in its social and linguistic setting
  • Chapter 3 Spelling reform in Czech, 14001900
  • Chapter 4 Spelling reform in Czech, 19001980
  • Chapter 5 Czech orthographic reform, 19801994
  • Chapter 6 The actors in spelling reform: Issues and debates
  • Chapter 7 Debating linguistics, authority, and legitimacy
  • Chapter 8 Metaphors and the conceptualization of language
  • Chapter 9 Conclusions
  • Backmatter.