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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783895703321

Autore

Crowley Tony

Titolo

Language in history [[electronic resource] ] : theories and texts / / Tony Crowley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-90821-0

0-203-41644-9

0-585-44713-6

1-280-32107-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

The Politics of language

Disciplina

306.4/4/01

Soggetti

Language and history

Language and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourgeois public sphere in 18th Century England, and he reveals how language is still being used in contemporary Ireland to articulate national and political aspirations and why the Irish language died.By bringin