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1 online resource (203 pages) |
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Encounters ; v. 2 |
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Encounters ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; 1. Constructing Languages and Publics Authority and representation; 2. The Family Romance of Colonial Linguistics Gender and family in nineteenth-century representations of African languages; 3. Linguistic Theories and National Images in Nineteenth-century Hungary; 4. Representing Native American Oral Narrative The textual practices of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; 5. From the Meaning of Meaning to the Empires of the Mind Ogden's Orthological English |
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6. Mock Spanish, Covert Racism and the (Leaky) Boundary between Public and Private Spheres7. State Speech for Peripheral Publics in Java; 8. Creating Evidence Making sense of written words in Bosavi; 9. Outlaw Language Creating alternative public spheres in Basque free radio; 10. Circulating the People; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the policing of correctness, folklore collections and linguistic academies are all part of the work that produces not only languages but also social groups and spheres of action such as ""the public"". Such re |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Courtesy.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Authority.
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Anthropological linguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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anthropological linguistics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Authority
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Courtesy
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Sociolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gal, Susan.
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Woolard, Kathryn
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| ISBN |
9781317639794 |
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1317639790 |
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9781317639787 |
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1317639782 |
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9781315759647 |
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1315759640 |
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