Mother Tongues and Nations : : The Invention of the Native Speaker / / Thomas Paul Bonfiglio.
This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of “mother tongue” and “native speaker” by historicizing their linguistic development. It shows how the early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Deconstructing the native speaker
- Chapter 2: Nativity and the nation state
- Chapter 3: Antiquity and the absence of ethnolinguistic nationalism
- Chapter 4: From sermo patrius to lingua materna
- Chapter 5: Abstracting the secular: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the eighteenth century
- Chapter 6: Reconstructing Eden: Genealogies of language in the nineteeth century
- Chapter 7: Scholarship in the maternal arboretum of language
- Conclusion
- Backmatter