Language, Nations, and Multilingualism (eBook, PDF)

Questioning the Herderian Ideal
Redaktion: Tan, Ying-Ying; Mishra, Pritipuspa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Language, Nations and Multilingualism explores the legacy of Herder's ideas about the relationship between language and nationalism in the post-colonial world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429838132
• Artikelnr.: 60722787

Autorenporträt

Ying-Ying Tan is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Pritipuspa Mishra is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southampton, the United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Questioning the Herderian ideal

Pritipuspa Mishra and Ying-Ying Tan

2. Herder: blessing or curse for linguistic justice? A contemporary assessment

Helder De Schutter

3. Rethinking the principle of linguistic homogeneity in the age of superdiversity

Stephen May

4. From cultural difference to monoglossia: Herder's language trap

Tony Crowley

5. Multilingualism in the United States: the long history of official translations

Rosina Lozano

6. A noble dream?: Hindustani and Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century

Pritipuspa Mishra

7. No laughing matter: learning to speak the "common language" in 1950s China

Janet Y. Chen

8. Nationalism, multilingualism, and language planning in post-colonial Africa

Nkonko Kamwangamalu

9. Language and national consciousness in the post-colonial Caribbean

Andrew M. Daily

10. The myth of multilingualism in Singapore

Ying-Ying Tan