LINGUIST List 18.1002
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Tue Apr 03 2007
Books: Sociolinguistics: Bermel
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1. Julia
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Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: Bermel
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Message 1: Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: Bermel
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Date: 30-Mar-2007
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrich degruyter.com>
Subject: Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: Bermel
Title: Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor
Subtitle: The Czech Orthography Wars
Series Title: (Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] 17)
Published: 2007
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-9783110185966-1&l=E
Author: Neil Bermel
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110185966 Pages: 370 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110185966 Pages: 370 Price: U.S. $ 98.00
Abstract:
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 controversy. Delving back into history, Bermel explores the Czech nation's long tradition of intervention and its association with the purity of the language, and how in the twentieth century an ascendant linguistic school - Prague Functionalism - developed into a progressive but centralizing ideology whose power base was inextricably linked to the communist regime. Bermel looks closely at the reforms of the 1990s and the heated public reaction to them. On the part of language regulators, he examines the ideology that underlay the reforms and the tactics employed on all sides to gain linguistic authority, while in dissecting the public reaction, he looks both at conscious arguments marshaled in favor of and against reform and at the use, conscious and subconscious, of metaphors about language.
Linguistic Field(s):
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Czech (ces)
Written In: English (eng )
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