Language and Publics: The Making of Authority.
Language: English
Published by St. Jerome Publishing, Manchester, UK, 2001
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Octavo, paper covers, viii, 194 pp., index Articles are "Constructing Languages and Publics Authority and representation," Susan Gal and Kathryn A. Woolard, "The Family Romance of Colonial Linguistics Gender and family in nineteenth-century representations of African languages," Judith T. Irvine, "Linguistic Theories and National Images in Nineteenth-century Hungary," Susan Gal, "Representing Native American Oral Narrative The textual practices of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft," Richard Bauman, "From the Meaning of Meaning to the Empires of the Mind Ogden's Orthological English," Michael Silverstein, "Mock Spanish, Covert Racism and the (Leaky) Boundary between Public and Private Spheres," Jane H. Hill, "State Speech for Peripheral Publics in Java," Joseph Errington, "Creating Evidence Making sense of written words in Bosavi," Bambi B. Schieffelin, "Outlaw Language Creating alternative public spheres in Basque free radio," Jacquelne Urla, "Circulating the People," Benjamin Lee.
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- Title
- Language and Publics: The Making of Authority.
- Author
- Gal, Susan and Woolard, Kathryn, edited by.
- Publisher
- St. Jerome Publishing, Manchester, UK
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Softbound
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1900650428
- ISBN 13
- 9781900650427
The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the policing of correctness, folklore collections and linguistic academies are all part of the work that produces not only languages but also social groups and spheres of action such as "the public". Such representational processes are the topic of inquiry in this voume. They are explored as crucial aspects of power, figuring among the means for establishing inequality, imposing social hierarchy, and mobilizing political action.
Contributions to this volume investigate two related questions: first, how different images of linguistic phenomena gain social credibility and political influence; and, secondly, the role of linguistic ideology and practices in the making of political authority. Using both historical and ethnographic approaches, they examine empirical cases ranging from small-scale societies to multi-ethnic empire, from nineteenth-century linguistic theories to contemporary mass media, and from Europe to Oceania to the Americas.
Contributors include Susan Gal, Kathryn Woolard, Judith Irvine, Richard Bauman, Michael Silverstein, Jane Hill, Joseph Errington, Bambi Schieffelin, Jacqueline Urla and Ben Lee.
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