Author: Peter Mackridge
This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks - sometimes with fatal results - for over two hundred years. It begins in the late eighteenth-century when a group of Greek int ... |
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Author: John R. Howe
A major reassessment of the way America's founders used and understood the language of politics |
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Author: Igal Halfin
This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. While social historians tend to regard language as a pragmatic tool, as much as an instrument of power, intellectual historians often treat language ... |
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Author: Igal Halfin
This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. While social historians tend to regard language as a pragmatic tool, as much as an instrument of power, intellectual historians often treat language ... |
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Author: Janette Dillon
This study explores the use of other languages, especially Latin, in medieval and Renaissance English drama. Until the medieval period Latin was regarded as the sacramental language of authority, but in the newly politic ... |
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Author: Elizabeth Horodowich
While historians typically describe the state as emerging through a wide variety of processes and structures such as armies, bureaucracies, and administrative organizations, this book demonstrates that a crucial but unre ... |
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Author: Elizabeth Horodowich
While historians typically describe the state as emerging through a wide variety of processes and structures such as armies, bureaucracies, and administrative organizations, this book demonstrates that a crucial but unre ... |
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Berni's Corrections to Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato"
Author: H.F. Woodhouse
This book reproduces, with slight alterations, the first half of a doctoral thesis presented to the University of Cambridge in 1978. What the book offers is a comprehensive, even if not actually exhaustive, account of th ... |
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A Study in Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer
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Speaking as a Woman
Author: M. C. Bodden
This book has two objectives: to demonstrate that, despite extensive evidence indicating a wholesale suppression of early women's speech, women were actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were ... |
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Author: Benjamin Harshav
An essay on Jewish culture and consciousness which concerns two specific events: the worldwide transformation of Jewish society after 1882 and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. |
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Transformations and Prospects
Author: Patrick Heinrich & Christian Galan
This book analyses how linguistic diversity in Japan, and indeed recognition of this phenomenon, presents a wide range of sociolinguistic challenges and opportunities in fundamental institutions such as schools, in cultu ... |
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Transformations and Prospects
Author: Patrick Heinrich & Christian Galan
Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and ... |
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Author: Travis
InThe Language of the HeartTrysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger 'recovery movement' that has grown out of them. Moving from AA's beginnings in the ... |
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LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii
Author: Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his university post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. From 1933 to 1935, Klem ... |
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From Nationalism to Globalisation
Author: Sue Wright
Language allows humans to act cooperatively, to plan, and to remember. It is the prime factor in the constitution of groups as well as a major barrier between groups. Language policy and planning is rarely just about lan ... |
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From Nationalism to Globalisation
Author: Sue Wright
Language allows humans to act cooperatively, to plan, and to remember. It is the prime factor in the constitution of groups as well as a major barrier between groups. Language policy and planning is rarely just about lan ... |
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Ireland, 1893-1993
Author: Padraig O. Riagain
During the nineteenth century Irish-speaking communities declined almost to the point of extinction. But in 1922 the new Irish state launched a broad strategy to re-establish Irish as a national language. This book is ab ... |
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National and Ethnic Identity and the Soviet Legacy
Author: Jacob M. Landau & Barbara Kellner-Heinkele
Nationalist leaders in the former Soviet states strive for national identity in both the political and cultural domains. Their language policies contend with Russian-speaking intelligentsias, numerous ethnic minorities a ... |
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Western India Under Colonialism
Author: Veena Naregal
Whereas most studies of colonialism focus on India's 'high' literary culture, this book looks at how local intellectuals exploited their 'middling' position through such initiatives as the establishment of newspapers and ... |
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