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Guardians of language : twenty voices through history / Florian Coulmas.
LIBRA P119.3 .C68 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coulmas, Florian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 Alcuin of York 1
- 2 Sibawayhi 19
- 3 Dante Alighieri 31
- 4 King Sejong the Great 47
- 5 Elio Antonio de Nebrija 61
- 6 Cardinal Richelieu 77
- 7 Catherine the Great 89
- 8 Adamántios Koraïs (Αδαμαντιος Κοραης) 103
- 9 Noah Webster 115
- 10 Jacob Grimm 127
- 11 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda 139
- 12 Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof 155
- 13 Ueda Kazutoshi 169
- 14 Vladimir Ilich Lenin 183
- 15 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 199
- 16 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 213
- 17 Zhou Enlai 229
- 18 Pope Paul VI 245
- 19 Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana 259
- 20 Léopold Sédar Senghor 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198736523
- 0198736525
- OCLC:
- 945569667
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