Voices of modernity language ideologies and the politics of inequality Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs

By:

Bauman, Richard, 1940- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Briggs, Charles L, 1953- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; 21.Publisher: Cambridge, England New York Cambridge University Press 2003Description: 1 online resource (xv, 356 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511064292
9780511064296
0511072759
9780511072758
9780511486647
0511486642
0521008972
9780521008976
1107132428
9781107132429
0511178875
9780511178870
0511202962
9780511202964
0511330642
9780511330643

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Additional physical formats: Print version: Voices of modernityDDC classification:

306.44 21

LOC classification:

P35 .B33 2003eb

Other classification:

17.24

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Making language and making it safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Locke; 3 Creating modernity's others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England: antiquarian and philological inflections; 4 The critical foundations of national epic and the rhetoric of authenticity: Hugh Blair and the Ossian controversy; 5 Language, poetry, and Volk in eighteenth-century Germany: Johann Gottfried Herder's construction of tradition

Summary: Argues that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how apparently objective differences between languages legitimated social inequalities

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-347) and index

Argues that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how apparently objective differences between languages legitimated social inequalities