Beschreibung:
The essays in this volume suggest that the emergence of language as an autonomous object of discourse was closely connected with the consolidation of new and sometimes competing forms of political community in the period following the French Revolution and the global spread of European power.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Ignoring Saussure Chapter 2 "Our History, Our Heritage": Language and Nationhood in Late Enlightenment Prussia Chapter 3 Return to Enlightenment: Franz Bopp's Reformation of Comparative Grammar Chapter 4 Dialects of Modernization in France and Italy, 1865-1900 Chapter 5 Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth Century Scandinavia Chapter 6 Lost in Translation: Carl Buttner's Contribution to the Development of African Language Studies in Germany Chapter 7 Language Work and Colonial Politics in Eastern Africa: The Making of Standard Swahili and "School Kikuyu" Chapter 8 Cultural Identity, Education, and Language Politics in China and Japan, 1870-1920