Language, history, ideology the use and misuse of historical-comparative linguistics
"Since its beginnings, historical-comparative linguistics has had its "encounters" with ideology. Eighteenth-century pioneering arguments for a Finno-Ugric family met with strong resistance from Hungarian nationalists. In Indo-European studies, the problematic "beech tree" a...
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Oxford University Press
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Since its beginnings, historical-comparative linguistics has had its "encounters" with ideology. Eighteenth-century pioneering arguments for a Finno-Ugric family met with strong resistance from Hungarian nationalists. In Indo-European studies, the problematic "beech tree" argument placed the homeland near Germanic and thus supported the "Nordic" origin of the "Aryans"; Russian nationalists see archaeological sites like Arkaim as the home of the "Aryans" and themselves as the descendants of these "Aryans"; and Indian nationalists try to locate the Indo-European homeland in India. To further political agendas, "alternative" histories have been proposed for Moldovian and Maltese, and for a language like Afrikaans an absolutely white origin was defended. Parallel to these developments and partly interacting with them, the rise of nation states, with their insistence on a single national language, led to the suppression of minority languages and dialects; conversely, the split of former Yugoslavia led to split of the former common language, Serbo-Croatian, into four languages in order to supply the successor states of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia each with its own "national language." Finally, even practicing linguists may be led astray by their biases. This volume presents twelve in-depth studies of cases where ideology has influenced historical-comparative linguistic work or has led to the rejection of comparative-historical linguistic findings, or where linguistic nationalism has affected the historical development of languages."--Publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | viii, 372 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780198827894 978-0-19-882789-4 |