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Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Book 21

LinguisticsAnthropology

ISBN10: 0521810698
ISBN13: 9780521810692
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 3 2003
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how differences between languages legitimated social inequalities. It claims that savages and ancients were judged alike because they used language similarly, in contrast to modern Europeans who used disciplined language in scientific, philosophical and legal projects.

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