Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality
(Part of the Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Series)
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Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521008972
ISBN13:9780521008976
Release Date:August 2003
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:2.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
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