| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) |
| Series |
The 2002 Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University, Belfast |
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Wiles lectures.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology 1450-1794; Prologue: communities and domains; CHAPTER 1 'Speak, that I may see thee': the discovery of language in early modern Europe; CHAPTER 2 Latin: a language in search of a community; CHAPTER 3 Vernaculars in competition; CHAPTER 4 Standardizing languages; CHAPTER 5 Mixing languages; CHAPTER 6 Purifying languages; Epilogue: languages and nations; APPENDIX Languages in Europe 1450-1789; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Peter Burke identifies and discusses major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution. He examines, in particular, the relationship between languages and communities, and between language and identity. A unique, pan-European study |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-199) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Europe -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Gesellschaft
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Soziolinguistik
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Sprache
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Kultur
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Diachronische sociolinguïstiek.
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Europe.
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511230508 |
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9780511230509 |
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0511228880 |
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9780511228889 |
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0511229720 |
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9780511229725 |
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9780511231278 |
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051123127X |
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9780511617362 |
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0511617364 |
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1280702109 |
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9781280702105 |
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1107160340 |
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9781107160347 |
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0511316550 |
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9780511316555 |
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