Screen LibraryMother tongues and nations : the invention of the native speaker /
This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors, mother tongue and native speaker, by historicizing their linguistic development. Early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race that generate...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ; 226 |
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| Summary: |
This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors, mother tongue and native speaker, by historicizing their linguistic development. Early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race that generated the philologies of (early) modernity and their genetic and arboreal families of languages. Enracination of language persists today. Scholarly recognition of the biological metaphors that racialize language will help to combat continued ethnolinguistic discrimination. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (253pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781934078266 |
| Index Number: | P120 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Deconstructing the native speaker -- Chapter 2: Nativity and the nation state -- Chapter 3: Antiquity and the absence of ethnolinguistic nationalism -- Chapter 4: From sermo patrius to lingua materna -- -- Chapter 5: Abstracting the secular: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the eighteenth century -- Chapter 6: Reconstructing Eden: Genealogies of language in the nineteeth century -- Chapter 7: Scholarship in the maternal arboretum of language -- Conclusion -- Backmatter |