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Purist Pursuits : Language, Global Ideas, and the Creation of Western Armenian in the Ottoman Empire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manoukian, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and culture.
- Armenians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian.Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-changing ideology that undergirded all phases of the language's formation: linguistic purism.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. The Social History of Armenian in the Ottoman Empire
- One. Purity and the Past, 1730-1830
- Two Purity and Patriotism, 1840-1860
- Three. Purity and Philology, 1860-1890
- Four. Purity and the People, 1890-1915
- Conclusion. Purity and the Post-Genocide Diaspora, 1915-2025
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4684-X
- 9781503646841
- OCLC:
- 1586552872
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