Language, History, Ideology
The Use and Misuse of Historical-Comparative Linguistics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 May 2024
- ISBN 9780198827894
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 240x160x30 mm
- Weight 730 g
- Language English 713
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Short description:
This volume explores the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. The chapters present twelve in-depth case studies that cover topics ranging from the location of the Indo-European homeland to language policy in the former Yugoslavia.
MoreLong description:
This volume presents twelve in-depth case studies that critically examine the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. These varying interactions have been present since the birth of historical-comparative linguistics as a field of study. Work in historical linguistics may be appropriated or rejected for ideological reasons, most notably in the debates surrounding the Indo-European homeland; it can also by influenced by ideological biases, as in the 'alternative' histories that have been proposed for Moldovan and Maltese. The development of linguistically-defined nation states may itself fuel linguistic change, for instance through the suppression of minority languages or the division of existing languages to mirror political divisions, as occurred in the Balkans; or it may lead to the formulation of pseudo-histories designed to give a nation a more prestigious past. The book will be of interest not only to historical linguists but also to anthropologists, historians, and all those interested in language policy.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Misunderstanding historical linguistics: Three Uralic examples
Ideologies and linguistic development in North Germanic
Ideology and recent attacks on historical-comparative methodology: Historical linguistics under siege?
Indo-European linguistic palaeontology and ideology: Nice wheels!
Historical linguistics and the Macedonia name issue: What's in a name?
Celtic and English language contact and scholarly attitudes
Borrowing and historical-linguistic ideology
The origin of Afrikaans: Purism or language contact?
Moldovan and Maltese and the poverty of historicism in Romance linguistics
The breakup of the national language of the former Yugoslavia: Speeding up language change
The European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages: Turning the tide against linguistic nationalism
Methodological nationalism and (anti-)historicism in the history of linguistics: Linguistic essentialism
