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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 306.44 B623c (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000768197

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.