Christopher Hutton

Linguistics and the Third Reich (eBook, PDF)

Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and within the history of modern linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134657278
• Artikelnr.: 38243762

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Hutton currently teaches linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. He previously taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas, USA and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Whose History?
Chapter 2 The Defence of Cultural Diversity
Chapter 3 Academic Politics
Chapter 4 Etymology as Collective Therapy
Chapter 5 The Strange Case of Sonderführer Weisgerber
Chapter 6 `A Complicated Young Man with a Complicated Fate, in a Complicated Time¿
Chapter 7 Yiddish Linguistics and National Socialism
Chapter 8 Vitalist Linguistics
Chapter 9 Linguistics, Race and the Horror of Assimilation