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

by Hoyt, David L.; Oslund, Karen; Benes, Tuska; Kaske, Elisabeth; J. Park, Peter K.; Peterson, Derek R.; Pugach, Sara

ISBN13:
9780739109557
ISBN10:
0739109553
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2006-09-27
Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

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.

Preface and Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction: Ignoring Saussure

(30)

David L. Hoyt

Karen Oslund

``Our History, Our Heritage'': Language and Nationhood in Late Enlightenment Prussia

(30)

Tuska Benes

Return to Enlightenment: Franz Bopp's Reformation of Comparative Grammar

(24)

Peter K. J. Park

Dialects of Modernization in France and Italy, 1865--1900

(34)

David L. Hoyt

Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia

119

(32)

Karen Oslund

Lost in Translation: Carl Buttner's Contribution to the Development of African Language Studies in Germany

151

(34)

Sara Pugach

Language Work and Colonial Politics in Eastern Africa: The Making of Standard Swahili and ``School Kikuyu''

185

(30)

Derek R. Peterson

Cultural Identity, Education, and Language Politics in China and Japan, 1870--1920

215

(42)

Elisabeth Kaske

About the Contributors

257

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