ISBN:
0-19-181864-X
,
0-19-105617-0
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (368 p.)
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online.
DDC:
306.449
Keywords:
Language policy.
Abstract:
This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twenty intellectuals from medieval to modern times, and from a variety of cultures, who have taken issue with language, its use, development, and political potential.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Guardians of Language: Twenty Voices Through History; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The politics of language; Language regimes; Conflicts; Ideologies; Individuals in a complex field; Chapter 1: Alcuin of York; Alcuin's life; The linguistic situation of Charlemagne's realm; Language reform; Script: uniformity and parsimony; Language policy; The last word; Notes; Chapter 2: Sibawayhi سيبويه; Sibawayhi's life; The language situation in the early Islamic Empire; 'The Book'; Language policy; The last word; Notes; Chapter 3: Dante Alighieri; Dante's life
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11: Eliezer Ben-YehudaBen-Yehuda's life; Hebrew in the late nineteenth century; Hebrew re-nativized; Ben-Yehuda's legacy; The last word; Notes; Chapter 12: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof; Zamenhof's life; Ideological sources; Merits and limitations of Esperanto; The last word; Notes; Chapter 13: Ueda Kazutoshi; Ueda's life; The language situation in late nineteenth-century Japan; Language reform; Crafting the national language; The last word; Notes; Chapter 14: Vladimir Ilich Lenin; Lenin's life; The linguistic situation in the waning years of Tsarist Russia
Description / Table of Contents:
The 'most complete equality of nationalities and their languages'Lenin's legacy; The last word; Notes; Chapter 15: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; Atatürk's life; The linguistic situation of the Ottoman Empire at the time of Atatürk's birth; Language reform; The last word; Notes; Chapter 16: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; Gandhi's life; The linguistic situation of British India; national language for India?; Gandhi's legacy; The last word; Notes; Chapter 17: Zhou Enlai; Zhou Enlai's life; The linguistic situation of early twentieth-century China; Equality, development, unity; Writing reform
Description / Table of Contents:
The last word
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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