The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context, 1740-1940

Herausgeber: Hoyt, David L.; Oslund, Karen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume suggest that the emergence of language as an autonomous object of discourse was closely connected with the consolidation of new and sometimes competing forms of political community in the period following the French Revolution and the global spread of European power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780739109557
• ISBN-10: 0739109553
• Artikelnr.: 22051102

Autorenporträt

David L. Hoyt is an independent historian living and teaching in Chicago. Karen Oslund is visiting research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ignoring Saussure Chapter 2 "Our History, Our
Heritage": Language and Nationhood in Late Enlightenment Prussia Chapter 3
Return to Enlightenment: Franz Bopp's Reformation of Comparative Grammar
Chapter 4 Dialects of Modernization in France and Italy, 1865-1900 Chapter
5 Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth
Century Scandinavia Chapter 6 Lost in Translation: Carl Buttner's
Contribution to the Development of African Language Studies in Germany
Chapter 7 Language Work and Colonial Politics in Eastern Africa: The Making
of Standard Swahili and "School Kikuyu" Chapter 8 Cultural Identity,
Education, and Language Politics in China and Japan, 1870-1920