ISBN10: 3110188260, ISBN13: 9783110188264, [publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter] Softcover XII, 369 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Orthographie reform and-language planning -- Standard Czech in its social and linguistic setting -- Spelling reform in Czech, 1400-1900 -- Spelling reform in Czech, 1900-1980 -- Czech orthographic reform, 1980-1994 -- The actors in spelling reform: Issues and debates -- Debating linguistics, authority, and legitimacy -- Metaphors and the conceptualization of language. ISBN 9783110188264 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 675
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Berlin/Boston Walter de Gruyter 2007 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 381 p. Language, Power and Social Process [Lpsp], 17.

ISBN10: 3110188260, ISBN13: 9783110188264, [publisher: De Gruyter Mouton] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public controversy. Delving back into history, Bermel explores the Czech nation's long tradition of intervention and its association with the purity of the language, and how in the twentieth century an ascendant linguistic school - Prague Functionalism - developed into a progressive but centralizing ideology whose power base was inextricably linked to the communist regime. Bermel looks closely at the reforms of the 1990s and the heated public reaction to them. On the part of language regulators, he examines the ideology that underlay the reforms and the tactics employed on all sides to gain linguistic authority, while in dissecting the public reaction, he looks both at conscious arguments marshaled in favor of and against reform and at the use, conscious and subconscious, of metaphors about language. Of interest to faculty and students working in the area of language, cultural studies, and history, especially that of transitional and post-communist states, this volume is also relevant for those with a more general interest in language planning and language reform. The book ...
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ISBN10: 3110188260, ISBN13: 9783110188264, [publisher: De Gruyter Mouton] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public controversy. Delving back into history, Bermel explores the Czech nation's long tradition of intervention and its association with the purity of the language, and how in the twentieth century an ascendant linguistic school - Prague Functionalism - developed into a progressive but centralizing ideology whose power base was inextricably linked to the communist regime. Bermel looks closely at the reforms of the 1990s and the heated public reaction to them. On the part of language regulators, he examines the ideology that underlay the reforms and the tactics employed on all sides to gain linguistic authority, while in dissecting the public reaction, he looks both at conscious arguments marshaled in favor of and against reform and at the use, conscious and subconscious, of metaphors about language. Of interest to faculty and students working in the area of language, cultural studies, and history, especially that of transitional and post-communist states, this volume is also relevant for those with a more general interest in language planning and language reform. The book ...
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Paperback / softback. New. Focuses on the linguistic history of a nation at the crossroads of Europe. This book explores the way various factors including linguistic theory, cultural authority, political ideology in communist and post-communist era contributed to the formation of two diametrically opposing mindsets about Czech spelling and orthographic reform in general. ISBN 3110188260 9783110188264 [GB]

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ISBN10: 3110188260, ISBN13: 9783110188264, [publisher: Mouton de Gruyter] Softcover 368 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 3110188260, ISBN13: 9783110188264, [publisher: De Gruyter Mouton] Softcover
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