Contest of Language
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arabic
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cultural consequences
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greek
intellectual consequences
irish
latin
linguistic imperialism
minority and dominant language
vernacular
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- ISBN 9780268021917
- Weight: 432g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2005
- Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional, academic, and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Specific essays apply this theme of the contest of language to the suppression, survival, and revival of the Irish language; to Greek, Latin, and the emergence of the vernacular in Europe; to the relationship between minority and dominant language in China; and to the lack of linguistic imperialism in the spread of Arabic, among other fascinating topics.
W. Martin Bloomer is associate professor of classics at the University of Notre Dame.
