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Language, culture, and hegemony in modern France : 1539 to the millennium / Freeman G. Henry ; [preface by R. Howard Bloch].
- Title
- Language, culture, and hegemony in modern France : 1539 to the millennium / Freeman G. Henry ; [preface by R. Howard Bloch].
- Author
- Henry, Freeman G.
- Publication
- Birmingham, Ala. : Summa Publ., 2008
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- Description
- xviii, 280 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In this panoramic study, Freeman Henry chronicles the rise to prominence of French language and culture. He meticulously analyzes the protracted government-sponsored efforts to foster and maintain that status and--ultimately--the latter-day challenges to France's national linguistic identity posed by Anglocentric globalization and a multicentric European Union. The internal history of the language is closely intertwined with its external history: phonology, morphology, lexicography, and orthography come alive against a backdrop of political, cultural, and institutional manifestations. A felicitous blend of documentary evidence and critical analysis serves to elucidate crucial stages, events, and concepts: 16th-century exuberance, 17th-century foundations, 18th-century expansionism, Revolutionary ideology. Restoration restructuring and commercialization, the advent of linguistic science, the coming of the media age, encroaching technocracy, and clamors for linguistic parity. Individual chapter focus on the plight of minority linguistic communities such as the blind and the deaf, language monitoring policies and legislation such as the Loi Toubon, as well as the feminization project legitimizing Madame la ministre. --Publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The making of the of republic letters: Voltaire's Europe, Voltaire's language -- Revolution, restoration, language for profit -- Overcoming impairments: Braille, LSF, ASL -- From Jones to Martinet: language, science, nation -- Enemy at the gates: Parlez-vous franglais? Evitez le franglais! -- A house divided: Madame la/le Ministre.
- ISBN
- 1883479592
- 9781883479596
- OCLC
- 234882756
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library