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

• Autore: Crowley Tony
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/4/01
• Soggetto topico: Language and history; Language and culture
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Language in history
• ISBN: 1-134-90821-0; 0-203-41644-9; 0-585-44713-6; 1-280-32107-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799992903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politics of language.