Languages And Nations

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931909

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British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at Calcutta in 1786—proposing that Sanskrit is related to Persian and languages of Europe—and the conceptualization of the Dravidian language family of South India by F.W. Ellis at Madras in 1816—the "Dravidian proof," showing that the languages of South India are related to one another but are not derived from Sanskrit. These concepts are valid still today, centuries later. This book continues the examination Thomas R. Trautmann began in Aryans and British India (1997). While the previous book focused on Calcutta and Jones, the current volume examines these developments from the vantage of Madras, focusing on Ellis, Collector of Madras, and the Indian scholars with whom he worked at the College of Fort St. George, making use of the rich colonial record. Trautmann concludes by showing how elements of the Indian analysis of language have been folded into historical linguistics and continue in the present as unseen but nevertheless living elements of the modern.

Author : Norman Berdichevsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786427000

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Nations, Language and Citizenship by Norman Berdichevsky Pdf

This study evaluates the importance of language in achieving a sense of national solidarity, considering factors such as territory, religion, race, historical continuity, and memory. It investigates the historical experiences of countries and ethnic or regional minorities according to how their political leadership, intellectual elite, or independence movements answered the question, “Who are we?” The Americans, British, and Australians all speak English, just as the French, Haitians, and French-Canadians all speak French, sharing common historical origin, vocabulary and usage—but each nationality’s use of its language differs. So does language transform a citizenry into a community / or is a “national language” the product of idealogy? This work presents 26 case studies and raises three questions: whether the people of independent countries consider language the most important factor in creating their sense of nationality; whether the people living in multi-ethnic states or as regional minorities are most loyal to the community with which they share a language or the community with which they share citizenship; and whether people in countries with civil strife find a common language enough to create a sense of political solidarity. The study also covers hybrid languages, language revivals, the difference between dialects and languages, government efforts to promote or avoid bilingualism, the manipulation of spelling and alphabet reform. Illustrations include postage stamps, banknotes, flags, and posters illustrating language controversies. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015063143047

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Two Languages One Nation, One Language Two Nations by Lanka Sama Samaja Party Pdf

Collection of documents of Lanka Sama Samaja Party on the issue.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520244559

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Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137576477

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Language Policy and Language Planning by Sue Wright Pdf

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UOM:39015010394073

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Language Problems of Developing Nations by Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

Author : Jenny L. Davis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780816537686

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Talking Indian by Jenny L. Davis Pdf

A valuable look at how Native language programs contribute to broader community-building efforts--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jeffrey E. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521870108

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Hand Talk by Jeffrey E. Davis Pdf

Describes a unique case of sign language that served as an international language among numerous Native American nations not sharing a common spoken language. The book contains the most current descriptions of all levels of the language from phonology to discourse, as well as comparisons with other sign languages.

Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781934078266

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Mother Tongues and Nations by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio Pdf

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 identity and local organic nature. These ethno-nationalist gestures informed the philology of the early modern era and generated arboreal and genealogical models of language, culminating most divisively in the race conscious discourse of the Indo-European hypothesis of the 19th century. The philosophical theories of organicism also contributed to these ideologies. The fundamentally nationalist conflation of race and language was and is the catalyst for subsequent permutations of ethnolinguistic discrimination, which continue today. Scholarship should scrutinize the tendency to overextend biological metaphors in the study of language, as these can encourage, however surreptitiously, genetic and racial impressions of language.

Author : Rowland Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1764
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000462615

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The Origin of Language and Nations, Hieroglyfically, Etymologically, and Topografically Defined and Fixed, After the Method of an English, Celtic, Greek and Latin English Lexicon. ... By Rowland Jones, ... by Rowland Jones Pdf

Author : Charles Lassalle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : OXFORD:600092812

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Origin of the Western Nations & Languages by Charles Lassalle Pdf

Author : Sandra Bermann,Michael Wood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691116099

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Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation by Sandra Bermann,Michael Wood Pdf

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining national and cultural boundaries, "translation" is now emerging as a reformulated subject of lively, interdisciplinary debate. Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation enters the heart of this debate. It covers an exceptional range of topics, from simultaneous translation to legal theory, from the language of exile to the language of new nations, from the press to the cinema; and cultures and languages from contemporary Bengal to ancient Japan, from translations of Homer to the work of Don DeLillo. All twenty-two essays, by leading voices including Gayatri Spivak and the late Edward Said, are provocative and persuasive. The book's four sections--"Translation as Medium and across Media," "The Ethics of Translation," "Translation and Difference," and "Beyond the Nation"--together provide a comprehensive view of current thinking on nationality and translation, one that will be widely consulted for years to come. The contributors are Jonathan E. Abel, Emily Apter, Sandra Bermann, Vilashini Cooppan, Stanley Corngold, David Damrosch, Robert Eaglestone, Stathis Gourgouris, Pierre Legrand, Jacques Lezra, Françoise Lionnet, Sylvia Molloy, Yopie Prins, Edward Said, Azade Seyhan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Henry Staten, Lawrence Venuti, Lynn Visson, Gauri Viswanathan, Samuel Weber, and Michael Wood.

Author : Ying-Ying Tan,Pritipuspa Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429838125

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Language, Nations, and Multilingualism by Ying-Ying Tan,Pritipuspa Mishra Pdf

Language, Nations, and Multilingualism explores the legacy of Herder’s ideas about the relationship between language and nationalism in the post-colonial world. Focusing on how anti-colonial and post-colonial nations reconcile their myriad multilingualisms with the Herderian model of one language-one nation, it shows how Herder’s model is both attractive and problematic for such nations. Why then does the Herderian model have such valency? How has the Herderian ideal of one nation-one language continued to survive beneath the uncomfortable resolution struck by new multilingual nations as they create fictions of a singular national mother tongue? To what extent is Herder still relevant in our contemporary world? How have different nations negotiated the Herderian ideal in different ways? What does the way in which multilingual post-colonial nations deal with this crisis tell us about a possible alternative framework for understanding the relationship between language and nation? By approaching this investigation from diverse archives across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Language, Nations, and Multilingualism proposes answers to the aforementioned questions from a global perspective that takes into account the specificities of a range of colonial experiences and political regimes. And by extending the discussion backwards in time to offer a more historical reading of the making of modern nations, it allows us to see how multilingualism has always disrupted constructions of monoglot nations.

Author : Joan Rubin,Bjorn Jernudd
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824880705

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Can Language be Planned? by Joan Rubin,Bjorn Jernudd Pdf

This pioneer study goes well beyond the subject of linguistics to encompass economic, sociological, political, and educational approaches to language change. In the context of the development of national resources, the book focuses on language planning--the deliberate change and promotion of language structure and language use. It outlines a theoretical approach to the study of language planning and includes selected case studies which demonstrate the possibilities of broadening and improving national planning by taking linguistic and human resources into explicit account to enhance forecasting. The contributors to this volume include highly renowned experts in their respective academic fields as well as actual language planners. They were brought together on the instigation of a study group on language-planning processes sponsored by the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, with Ford Foundation support. Can Language Be Planned? is one result of their joint studies. An on-going cross-national research project on language-planning processes at Stanford University is another.

Author : Charles Lassalle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022508857

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Origin of the Western Nations & Languages by Charles Lassalle Pdf

This book delves into the origins and development of Western languages, tracing their roots and exploring their connections to other languages. Charles Lassalle provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, drawing on linguistics, anthropology, and history to paint a rich and detailed picture of the linguistic landscape of the Western world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.