The contest of language : before and beyond nationalism / edited by W. Martin Bloomer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloomer, M. (Martin)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Linguistic minorities.

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2005]

Summary:

Considers various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional, academic, and literary means.

Contents:

Latin versus Italian: the linguistic crisis of the early Italian renaissance / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr

The persistence of Syriac / Joseph P. Amar

Duthaigh and Duchas in sixteenth-century Ireland / Peter McQuillan

Language and imperial ideology in late antiquity and early Islam / Dimitri Gutas

"Till some person attain to the universal monarchy": seventeenth-century language technologies and what they say / Haun Saussy

Nationalism without linguism: tolerating Chinese variants / Susan D. Blum

Whose language is it anyway? The Irish and the English language / Tony Crowley

Speaking in Glossai: dialect choice and cultural politics in Hellenistic poetry / Richard Hunter

Marble Latin: encounters with the timeless language / W. Martin Bloomer

Dumbness and eloquence: a note on English as we write it in Ireland / Seamus Deane

Afterword. philosophy and its languages: a philosopher's reflections on the rise of English as the universal academic language / Vittorio Hosle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0268021902

0268021910

OCLC:

61451621