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Linguistic authority, language ideology, and metaphor : the Czech orthography wars / by Neil Bermel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language, power, and social process ; 17.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3110197669
  • 9783110197662
  • 1282194038
  • 9781282194038
  • 9786612194030
  • 6612194030
  • 3119166405
  • 9783119166409
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Linguistic authority, language ideology, and metaphor.DDC classification:
  • 491.8/6 22
LOC classification:
  • PG4141 .B47 2007eb
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Orthographic reform and language planning -- Chapter 2 Standard Czech in its social and linguistic setting -- Chapter 3 Spelling reform in Czech, 14001900 -- Chapter 4 Spelling reform in Czech, 19001980 -- Chapter 5 Czech orthographic reform, 19801994 -- Chapter 6 The actors in spelling reform: Issues and debates -- Chapter 7 Debating linguistics, authority, and legitimacy -- Chapter 8 Metaphors and the conceptualization of language -- Chapter 9 Conclusions -- Backmatter.
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Summary: How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public.
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Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Orthographic reform and language planning -- Chapter 2 Standard Czech in its social and linguistic setting -- Chapter 3 Spelling reform in Czech, 14001900 -- Chapter 4 Spelling reform in Czech, 19001980 -- Chapter 5 Czech orthographic reform, 19801994 -- Chapter 6 The actors in spelling reform: Issues and debates -- Chapter 7 Debating linguistics, authority, and legitimacy -- Chapter 8 Metaphors and the conceptualization of language -- Chapter 9 Conclusions -- Backmatter.

How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public.

In English.

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