Language and history : theories and texts /

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Author / Creator:Crowley, Tony.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)
Language:English
Series:Politics of language
Politics of language.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11119171
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ISBN:0585447136
9780585447131
0203416449
9780203416440
1280321075
9781280321078
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-211) and index.
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Summary:In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourgeois public sphere in 18th Century England, and he reveals how language is still being used in contemporary Ireland to articulate national and political aspirations and why the Irish language died. By bringin.
Other form:Print version: Crowley, Tony. Language and history. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 0415072441