The contest of language : before and beyond nationalism / edited by W. Martin Bloomer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.Description: 274 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0268021902 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0268021910 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44 22 B623c
LOC classification:
  • P 119.3 .C66 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Latin vs. Italian: the linguistic crisis of the early Italian renaissance / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr -- Persistence of Syriac / Joseph Amar -- Dthaigh and Dchas in sixteenth-century Ireland / Peter McQuillan -- Language and imperial ideology in late antiquity and early Islam / Dimitri Gutas -- Till some person attain to the universal monarchy: seventeenth-century language technologies and what they say / Haun Saussy -- Nationalism without linguism: tolerating chinese variants / Susan D. Blum -- Whose language is it anyway? The Irish and the English language / Tony Crowley -- Speaking in Glossai: dialect choice and cultural politics in Hellenistic poetry / Richard Hunter -- Marble Latin: encounters with the timeless language / W. Martin Bloomer -- Dumbness & eloquence: a note on English as we write it in Ireland / Seamus Deane -- Afterword. philosophy and its languages: a philosopher's reflections on the rise of english as the universal academic language / Vittorio Hsle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Latin vs. Italian: the linguistic crisis of the early Italian renaissance / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr -- Persistence of Syriac / Joseph Amar -- Dthaigh and Dchas in sixteenth-century Ireland / Peter McQuillan -- Language and imperial ideology in late antiquity and early Islam / Dimitri Gutas -- Till some person attain to the universal monarchy: seventeenth-century language technologies and what they say / Haun Saussy -- Nationalism without linguism: tolerating chinese variants / Susan D. Blum -- Whose language is it anyway? The Irish and the English language / Tony Crowley -- Speaking in Glossai: dialect choice and cultural politics in Hellenistic poetry / Richard Hunter -- Marble Latin: encounters with the timeless language / W. Martin Bloomer -- Dumbness & eloquence: a note on English as we write it in Ireland / Seamus Deane -- Afterword. philosophy and its languages: a philosopher's reflections on the rise of english as the universal academic language / Vittorio Hsle.

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