Christopher Hutton

Linguistics and the Third Reich

Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and within the history of modern linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 844g
• ISBN-13: 9780415189545
• ISBN-10: 0415189543
• Artikelnr.: 21812328

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Hutton currently teaches linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. He previously taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas, USA and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Whose History?
Chapter 2 The Defence of Cultural Diversity
Chapter 3 Academic Politics
Chapter 4 Etymology as Collective Therapy
Chapter 5 The Strange Case of Sonderführer Weisgerber
Chapter 6 'A Complicated Young Man with a Complicated Fate, in a Complicated Time'
Chapter 7 Yiddish Linguistics and National Socialism
Chapter 8 Vitalist Linguistics
Chapter 9 Linguistics, Race and the Horror of Assimilation