Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000
Subtitle: Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals
Contributors: Del Valle, José
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780203164860
Subjects: Political aspects; Spanish language
Description: This book analyses the ways in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries discussed the concept of Spanish language, national identity and the idea of Hispanic culture.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Biographical notes; Preface; Acknowledgments; Nationalism, hispanismo, and monoglossic culture; Linguistic anti-academicism and Hispanic community: Sarmiento and Unamuno; The ideological construction of an empirical base: selection and elaboration in Andres Bello's grammar; Historical linguistics and cultural history: the polemic between Rufino Jose Cuervo and Juan Valera; Menendez Pidal, national regeneration and the linguistic utopia; "For their own good": the Spanish identity and its Great Inquisitor, Miguel de Unamuno.; title: A nobleman grabs the broom: Ortega y Gasset's verbal hygieneJose Mara Arguedas: Peruvian Spanish as subversive assimilation; "Codo con codo": Hispanic community and the language spectacle; References; Index.