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Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe (The Wiles Lectures)

By Peter Burke

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0521828961, 9780521828963
LCC
P40.45.E85 B87 2004
Open Library ID
OL3303818M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1334301 bytes)
Pages
224\226
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Социолингвистика

Description

Peter Burke explores major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution. One theme is the relation between languages and communities and the place of language as a way of identifying others, as well as a symbol of one's own identity. A second, linked theme is that of competition: between Latin and the vernaculars, different vernaculars, dominant and subordinate, and different varieties of the same vernacular.

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