The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000 - Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals

This book analyses the ways in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries discussed the concept of Spanish language, national identity and the idea of Hispanic culture.

List of contents

1 Nationalism, Hispanismo, and Monoglossic Culture
2 Linguistic Anti-Academicism and Hispanic Community: Saramient and Unamuno
3 The Ideological Construction of an Empirical Base: Selection and Elaboration in Andés Bello's Grammar
4 Historical Linguistics and Cultural History: The Polemic between Rufino José Cuervo and Juan Valera
5 Menédez Pidal, National Regeneration and the Linguistic Utopia
6 'For Their Own Good:' The Spanish Identity and Its Great Inquisitor, Miguel de Unamuno
7 A Nobleman Grabs the Broom: Ortega y Gasset's Verbal Hygiene
8 José María Arguedas: Peruvian Spanish as Subversive Assimilation
9 'Codo con Codo:' Hispanic Community and the Language Spectacle

About the author

Luis Gabriel-Stheeman, José del Valle

Summary

This book analyses the ways in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries discussed the concept of Spanish language, national identity and the idea of Hispanic culture.

Product details

• Assisted by: José del Valle (Editor), Luis Gabriel-Stheeman (Editor), Gabriel-Stheeman Luis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2001
• EAN: 9780415252560
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25256-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Cultural Studies, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Latin-American Spanish