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Mother-tongue and fatherland : language and politics in German

Title
Mother-tongue and fatherland : language and politics in German / Michael Townson.
Author
Townson, Michael.
Publication
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1992.

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Description
viii, 255 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1999
  • Geschichte 1800-1900
  • Geschichte 1800-1990
  • Geschichte 1800-1989
  • German language > Political aspects
  • German language > Social aspects
  • Sociolinguistics > Germany > History > 19th century
  • Sociolinguistics > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Nationalism > Germany > History
  • Nationalism
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Deutsch
  • Nation
  • Politische Sprache
  • Soziolinguistik
  • Sprache
  • Germany
  • Deutschland
  • Deutsch
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-250) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction. p. 1.
  • 1. Some theoretical preliminaries. p. 6.
  • 2. Language and socio-economic change in nineteenth-century Germany. p. 38.
  • 3. Phatic functions: the German language as a political metaphor and instrument. p. 76.
  • 4. Regulation by and of language: the discourse of German fascism 1933-45. p. 120.
  • 5. question of identity. p. 163.
  • 6. Constructions of reality. p. 212.
  • Selective bibliography. p. 240.
  • Index. p. 251.
ISBN
  • 0719034396
  • 9780719034398
LCCN
91043429
OCLC
  • ocm24953544
  • 24953544
  • SCSB-8852747
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library