TY - BOOK AU - Bloomer,M. TI - The contest of language: before and beyond nationalism SN - 0268021902 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - P 119.3 .C66 2005 U1 - 306.44 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Language and languages KW - Political aspects KW - Linguistic minorities N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005025273.html ER -