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Autore |
Bonfiglio Thomas Paul <1948-> |
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Mother tongues and nations [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of the native speaker by / / Thomas Bonfiglio |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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9781934078259 |
9781934078266 |
1-282-70642-X |
1-934078-26-3 |
3-11-174676-3 |
1-934078-25-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 226 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Native language |
Multilingualism |
Sociolinguistics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Deconstructing the native speaker -- Chapter 2: Nativity and the nation state -- Chapter 3: Antiquity and the absence of ethnolinguistic nationalism -- Chapter 4: From sermo patrius to lingua materna -- Chapter 5: Abstracting the secular: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the eighteenth century -- Chapter 6: Reconstructing Eden: Genealogies of language in the nineteeth century -- Chapter 7: Scholarship in the maternal arboretum of language -- Conclusion -- Backmatter |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of "mother tongue" and "native speaker" by historicizing their linguistic development. It shows how the early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race. This ideology invented myths of congenital communities that configured the national language in a symbiotic matrix between body and physical environment and as the ethnic and corporeal ownership of national |
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