Contest of Language: Before and Beyond Nationalism - Softcover

 
9780268021917: Contest of Language: Before and Beyond Nationalism
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ISBN 10: 0268021910 ISBN 13: 9780268021917
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005

Synopsis

These essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional, academic, and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Specific essays apply this theme of the contest of language to the suppression, survival, and revival of the Irish language; to Greek, Latin, and the emergence of the vernacular in Europe; to the relationship between minority and dominant language in China; and to the lack of linguistic imperialism in the spread of Arabic, among other fascinating topics.

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W. Martin Bloomer is associate professor of classics at the University of Notre Dame.

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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0268021910
ISBN 13 
9780268021917
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320
Editor
Bloomer W. Martin

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