Richard Bauman

Voices of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

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Produktbeschreibung

Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. This 2003 book demonstrates that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, it suggests strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511057960
• Artikelnr.: 38184124

Autorenporträt

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor of Communication and Culture, Folklore, and Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Making language safe for science and society: from
Francis Bacon to John Lock; 3. Antiquaries and philologists: the
construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century England; 4. The critical foundations of national epic:
Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity; 5.
Johann Gottfried Herder: language reform, das Volk, and the patriarchal
state in eighteenth-century Germany; 6. The Brothers Grimm: scientizing,
textual production in the service of romantic nationalism; 7. Henry Rowe
school craft and the making of an American textual tradition; 8. The
foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas, George Hunt, Native
American texts and the construction of modernity; 9. Conclusion.