The Contest of Language
Subtitle: Before And Beyond Nationalism
Contributors: W. Martin Bloomer (Editor); M. Bloomer (Editor)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: October 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780268021900
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Politics / Current Events; Language; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; Linguistics; Language and languages; Linguistic minorities; Political aspects
First sentence: The contest of language examined in these studies is both a synchronic phenomenon wherein an individual can feel at home in one language and yet be estranged from another and a diachronic process in which one language may replace another for a set of speakers or writers, for an institution or a place or community.