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Languages and Publics The Making of Authority
192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the... Read more
Chapter 1 Constructing Languages and Publics Authority and Representation, Susan Gal, Kathryn A. Woolard; Chapter 2 The Family Romance of Colonial Linguistics, Judith T. Irvine; Chapter 3 Linguistic Theories and National Images in Nineteenth-Century Hungary 1 Many thanks to Kit Woolard for her stimulating questions, and to Bill Hanks for his comments at the AAA symposium., Susan Gal; Chapter 4 Representing Native American Oral Narrative, Richard Bauman; Chapter 5 From the Meaning of Meaning to the Empires of the Mind Ogden’s Orthological English 1 I thank Michael Locher for his help as my research assistant during the initial period of bibliographic search and gathering of materials on Ogden and Richards, tasks he carried out with distinction., Michael Silverstein; Chapter 6 Mock Spanish, Covert Racism, and the (Leaky) Boundary between Public and Private Spheres, Jane H. Hill; Chapter 7 State Speech for Peripheral Publics in Java, Joseph Errington; Chapter 8 Creating Evidence, Bambi B. Schieffelin; Chapter 9 Outlaw Language, Jacqueline Urla; Chapter 10 Circulating the People, Benjamin Lee;
Biography
Susan Gal, Kathryn A. Woolard
This volume constitutes an important stimulus for further research in the domain of public spheres, linguistic ideologies, and colonial and postcolonial studies, and exemplifies a very sophisticated research agenda that is indespensable to all those interested in practices, agency, social change, and ideologically mediated construction of local and translocal sociopolitical arenas. (Lukas Tsitsipis, Language in Society)
