Language and history : theories and texts /
In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For e...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Serie: | Politics of language.
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| Länkar: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=83130 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Cover; Language in History; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Language in history; 1 For and against Saussure; 2 For and against Bakhtin; 3 Wars of words: The roles of language in eighteenth-century Britain; 4 Forging the nation: Language and cultural nationalism in nineteenth-century Ireland; 5 Science and silence: Language, class, and nation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain; 6 Conclusion: Back to the past, or on to the future? Language in history; Notes; Select bibliography; Index