Voices of Modernity - Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Making language safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Lock; 3. Antiquaries and philologists: the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England; 4. The critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity; 5. Johann Gottfried Herder: language reform, das Volk, and the patriarchal state in eighteenth-century Germany; 6. The Brothers Grimm: scientizing, textual production in the service of romantic nationalism; 7. Henry Rowe school craft and the making of an American textual tradition; 8. The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas, George Hunt, Native American texts and the construction of modernity; 9. Conclusion.

About the author

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor of Communication and Culture, Folklore, and Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Summary

This 2003 book argues that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how apparently objective differences between languages legitimated social inequalities.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs, Charles S. Briggs
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2012
• EAN: 9780521810692
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81069-2
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 694 g
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)