The French Language And National Identity 1930 1975

Author : David C. Gordon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
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Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110809947

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The French Language and National Identity (1930–1975) by David C. Gordon Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : David C. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : France
ISBN : 3111880931

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The French Language and National Identity by David C. Gordon Pdf

Author : Leigh Oakes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588111164

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Language and National Identity by Leigh Oakes Pdf

This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their important differences (e.g. France subscribes in principle to a civic model of national identity, whereas the basis of Swedish identity is undeniably ethnic). It is precisely differences such as these which allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the ethnolinguistic implications of some of the major challenges currently facing France, Sweden and other European countries: regionalism, immigration, European integration and globalization.The present volume benefits from the use of a multidisciplinary approach, and differs from others on the market because of the variety of methods of inquiry used. A series of societal analyses is complemented by an empirical component, bringing a more grounded understanding to the issue of language and national identity.

Author : Elizaveta Khachaturyan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443879316

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Language - Nation - Identity by Elizaveta Khachaturyan Pdf

Is language one of the main components of national identity? How does it define one's national identity? Does its role change for each nation? These are the crucial questions that are explored in this volume, which describes the Nation-Identity dyad through the prism of language. The centuries-old theory on the role language plays in shaping national identity is discussed here in a new perspective appropriate to the 21st century. The analysis is provided from various points of view, and details changes in the relationship between these three elements (language, nation, and identity) in different historical, social and linguistic contexts. The book looks at several different languages in its analysis, such as English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian. It brings together a wide variety of approaches to the linguistic educational system in a multilingual Africa and in countries with a rich migration history, like Australia and United States. It also discusses the role literature and textbooks play in shaping the sense of national belonging. The answers to the central questions described above are both highly individual and very general, but will, no doubt, stimulate the reader's reflection about 'me' and the 'other'.

Author : Manuel De Landa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780942299922

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A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel De Landa Pdf

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while engaging — in an entirely unprecedented manner — the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history merely as the arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is an entirely novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semi-stable forms, cities, economies, technologies, and languages. De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In each case, De Landa discloses the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress and, even more important, free of any deterministic source for its urban, institutional, and technological forms. The source of all concrete forms in the West’s history, rather, is shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter—energy itself. A Swerve Edition.

Author : Adrian Battye,Marie-Anne Hintze,Paul Rowlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136903281

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The French Language Today by Adrian Battye,Marie-Anne Hintze,Paul Rowlett Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Placing French within its social and historical context, the authors highlight the complex, diverse aspects of the language in a lively and accessible way. A variety of topics is covered, including the distribution of French in the world, the historical development of standard French, the sound system of French, its sentence patterns, and its stylistic and geographical variations. Fully updated and revised, this new edition places a greater emphasis on sociolinguistics. To make the book more user-friendly, the following new features have been added: * a further reading guide at the end of each chapter * a glossary of linguistic terms * an expanded bibliography and index.

Author : Michael D. Gordin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226000299

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Scientific Babel by Michael D. Gordin Pdf

English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.

Author : Timothy Baycroft
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861932696

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Culture, Identity and Nationalism by Timothy Baycroft Pdf

This study examines the evolution of national and regional, cultural and political identities in that northern region of France which borders Belgium, over the two centuries which followed the French Revolution. During that time the region was transformed by the development of the industrial economy, population shifts, war and occupation, and numerous changes of political regime. Through an analysis of a wide range of issues, including language, regional and national political movements, educational policy, attitudes towards immigrants and the border, the press, trade unions, and the church - as well as the attitude of the French State - the author questions traditional interpretations of the process of national assimilation in France. At the same time he illustrates how the Franco-Belgian border, originally an arbitrary line through a culturally homogeneous region, became not only a significant marker for the identity of the French Flemish, but a real cultural division. TIMOTHY BAYCROFT is lecturer in French history, University of Sheffield.

Author : William R. Beer,James E. Jacob
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0865980586

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Language Policy and National Unity by William R. Beer,James E. Jacob Pdf

The central focus of each chapter is language policy and how it accomplishes-or fails to accomplish-the task of maintaining national unity in the face of linguistic diversity. Included among the nations considered are examples of postcolonial cultures, as well as nations that have sheltered linguistic minorities within their borders throughout their history, countries fragmented into tribal groups, and those divided by a plethora of local dialects.

Author : Andrew Linn,Neil Bermel,Gibson Ferguson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501500695

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Attitudes towards English in Europe by Andrew Linn,Neil Bermel,Gibson Ferguson Pdf

The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often seen as an opportunity for Europeans to take part in the global market, but increasingly English is viewed as a threat to the national languages of Europe, and the idea that Europeans are equally at home in English is being challenged. This book will appeal to anyone interested in global English.

Author : Li Wei,Jean-Marc Dewaele,Alex Housen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110852004

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Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism by Li Wei,Jean-Marc Dewaele,Alex Housen Pdf

This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and published extensively in the field of bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading attached to each of the main chapters.

Author : Hilary Wise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134817078

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The Vocabulary of Modern French by Hilary Wise Pdf

The Vocabulary of Modern French provides a fresh insight into contemporary French. With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions. Topics covered include: * external influences on the language * word formation * semantic change * style and register In addition, the author looks at the relationship between social and lexical change and examines attempts at intervention in the development of the language. Each chapter is concluded by notes for further reading, and by suggestions for project work which are designed to increase awareness of specific lexical phenomena and enable the student-reader to use lexicographic databases of all kinds. The Vocabulary of Modern French is an accessible and fascinating study of the relationship between a nation and its language, as well as providing a key text for all students of modern French.

Author : J. Adrey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230583986

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Discourse and Struggle in Minority Language Policy Formation by J. Adrey Pdf

The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product , examinable post hoc from existing language legislation.

Author : Miguel Mantero,Paul Chamness Miller,John L Watzke
Publisher : IAP
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648027550

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Language Across Disciplinary Boundaries by Miguel Mantero,Paul Chamness Miller,John L Watzke Pdf

The International Society for Language Studies (ISLS) inaugurates its first volume in the series Readings in Language Studies with Language Across Disciplinary Boundaries, a text that represents international perspectives on language and identity, critical pedagogy, language and power, perspectives on second language acquisition and teacher education. Founded in 2002, ISLS is a world-wide organization of volunteers, scholars and practitioners committed to critical, interdisciplinary, and emergent approaches to language studies.

Author : Kate Averis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351567497

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Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing by Kate Averis Pdf

Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather than an unsettling state of errancy. Exile may be a propitious circumstance for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, appropriating a new freedom in mobility. Through a feminist politics of place, displacement and subjectivity, this comparative study analyses the novels of key contemporary Francophone and Latin American writers Nancy Huston, Linda Le, Malika Mokeddem, Cristina Peri Rossi, Laura Restrepo, and Cristina Siscar to identify a new nomadic subjectivity in the lives and works of transnational women today.