34.520, Books: Desired Language: Feliu (ed.)

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Subject: 34.520, Books: Desired Language: Feliu (ed.)

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:42:19
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Desired Language: Feliu (ed.)

 


Title: Desired Language 
Subtitle: Languages as objects of national ideology 
Series Title: IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature   35  

Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.35 


Editor: Francesc Feliu

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027254986 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027254986 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027254986 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212771 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212771 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212771 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes
that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current
reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser
exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of
today’s thinkers have predicted the decline or even the end of national
ideologies. In the area of language, postmodernism would make the linguistic
affiliation of the community individuals irrelevant, de-ideologise language
use, and extend plurilingualism and language alternation in association with a
new distribution of (physical or functional) spaces of linguistic practice. 
But is this true everywhere? Are languages now nowhere the core of collective
identity? Or are we witnessing a distinction between languages that, because
of their magnitude, status, strategic position, etc., can continue to exercise
the function of national languages and languages that have to renounce this
function? Has national linguistic ideology really ceased to make sense? What
other strategies should the historic language of a given geographic area
employ if it wants to continue forming part of the life of the community that
is set up there? What kinds of languages are desired by politicians,
intellectuals and philologists? This book aims to bring some thoughts about
these questions.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=168313




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