Kirill Levinson

How Germans and Russians Made Their Orthographies

Dealing With the "Spelling Distress"

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Correct spelling is a social construction created by scholars, teachers, officials, and other stakeholders. This book is a historical study of such processes in Germany and Russia and shows that they were part of a general societal, economic, political, and cultural evolution in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781666924114
• ISBN-10: 1666924113
• Artikelnr.: 68886313

Autorenporträt

Kirill Levinson is an academic editor with the Moscow branch of the Max Weber Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Nineteenth Century: Adapting to a Changing World
2. Constructing and Reconstructing the Mistake
3. Constructing and Reconstructing the Norm
Conclusion: The History of Orthography as a History of Society
Archival Collections
Bibliography
Index
About the Author