Florian Coulmas

Guardians of Language (eBook, PDF)

Twenty Voices Through History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twenty intellectuals from medieval to modern times, and from a variety of cultures, who have taken issue with language, its use, development, and political potential. These 'guardians of language' range from renowned figures such as Dante, Noah Webster, and Gandhi, to less well-known individuals such as the Spanish grammarian Antonio de Nebrija and Senegalese politician and poet L?opold S?dar Senghor. Each chapter begins by providing background information on the scholar whose work is being reviewed and ends with a summary of his key thoughts on language in the form of an imaginary interview.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191056178
• Artikelnr.: 48793970

Autorenporträt

Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Duisburg-Essen University. From 2004 to 2014, he served as director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, and he has held appointments at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, and Chuo University, Tokyo. He is the author of Writing and Society (CUP, 2014) and editor of Language Regimes in Transformation (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007) and The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Writing Systems (Blackwell, 1999). He is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Politics of Language
1: Alcuin of York
2: Sibawayhi
3: Dante Alighieri
4: King Sejong the Great
5: Elio Antonio de Nebrija
6: Cardinal Richelieu
7: Catherine the Great
8: Adamántios Koraïs
9: Noah Webster
10: Jacob Grimm
11: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
12: Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof
13: Ueda Kazutoshi
14: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
15: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
16: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
17: Zhou Enlai
18: Pope Paul VI
19: Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana
20: Léopold Sédar Senghor
Lessons learnt
Bibliography
Index