Christopher Hutton

Linguistics and the Third Reich

Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and the history of modern linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 234mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780415757591
• ISBN-10: 0415757592
• Artikelnr.: 39703282

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