Diglossia and Power
Subtitle: Language Policies and Practice in the 19th Century Habsburg Empire (Language, Power, and Social Process, 9)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9783110176537
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; c 1800 to c 1900; Language Arts & Disciplines; Europe - Austria & Hungary; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Sociolinguistics; Language; Austria; Diglossia (Linguistics); Reference; 19th century; History; Language policy
First sentence: Was the language policy in the Habsburg Monarchy from the mid-19th century onwards 'repressive and assimilatory' or 'pluralistic and emancipatory'?1