Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor

Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor
Title Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor PDF eBook
Author Neil Bermel
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 385
Release 2008-08-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110197669

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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 is awarded with the "The George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies 2008".

Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor

Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor
Title Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor PDF eBook
Author Neil Bermel
Publisher De Gruyter Mouton
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9783110188264

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Annotation "This book focuses on the linguistic history of a nation at the crossroads of Europe. Neil Bermel explores the way various factors - including linguistic theory, cultural authority, political ideology in the communist and post-communist era, and a long tradition of language intervention - contributed in the late twentieth century to the formation of two diametrically opposing mindsets about Czech spelling and orthographic reform in general. The shifting power bases and strategies of the various players in the early 1990s receive a full treatment, as does the conscious and unconscious manipulation of metaphors about language and language planning in these struggles."--BOOK JACKET.

Creole Language, Democracy, and the Illegible State in Cabo Verde

Creole Language, Democracy, and the Illegible State in Cabo Verde
Title Creole Language, Democracy, and the Illegible State in Cabo Verde PDF eBook
Author Abel Djassi Amado
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 241
Release 2023-07-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1666922684

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This book argues that the state in Cabo Verde is illegible since its operations, procedures, and processes are carried out through Portuguese, a language that most of the people do not understand. Consequently, the illegible state produces grave political consequences in overall political participation and the quality of democracy.

Metaphor, Nation and Discourse

Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
Title Metaphor, Nation and Discourse PDF eBook
Author Ljiljana Šarić
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 366
Release 2019-05-20
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027262675

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This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the discursive power behind them. The chapters examine a range of contemporary and historical, monomodal and multimodal discourses, including politicians’ discourse, presidential speeches, newspapers, TV series, Catholic homilies, colonialist discourse, and various online sources. The approaches taken include political science, international relations, cultural studies, and linguistics. All contributions feature discursive constructivist views of metaphor, with clear sociocultural grounding, and the notion of metaphor as a framing device in constructing various aspects of nations and national identity. The volume will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, metaphor studies, media studies, nationalism studies, and political science.

Language Ideologies and the Globalization of 'Standard' Spanish

Language Ideologies and the Globalization of 'Standard' Spanish
Title Language Ideologies and the Globalization of 'Standard' Spanish PDF eBook
Author Darren Paffey
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 209
Release 2012-09-06
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1441150323

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This book examines how language ideologies are manifested in newspaper media. Using the Spanish press as a case study it considers how media discourse both from and about the Real Academia Española constitutes a set of 'language ideological debates' in which the institution represents a vision of what the Spanish language is and what it should be like. Paffey adopts a Critical Discourse Analysis approach to a large corpus of texts from Spain's best-selling daily newspapers, El País and ABC. More generally, the book sheds light on how institutions produce and maintain visions of 'standard language' in the contemporary context. A global language, such as Spanish, is by nature more widely used outside of the nation state in question than in it. The book covers recent research on language ideologies, standardization and CDA and considers the application of these to three core discursive themes: language unity and a concept of a 'panhispanic' speech community; the RAE's construction of its authority; and institutional ideologies and management of language on a global scale.

Variations on Metaphor

Variations on Metaphor
Title Variations on Metaphor PDF eBook
Author Ilaria Rizzato
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 230
Release 2021-08-13
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1527573761

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Metaphor is a fascinating and, at the same time, complex phenomenon. It can be approached from a multitude of perspectives, and the linguistic realizations of metaphors vary not only across languages, but also across text genres, cultures, and time. This book reflects such complexity and variability by gathering a collection of studies that adopt different theoretical views and explore the actual uses of metaphors in different text types (literary, folkloric, journalistic, and scientific) and languages (Hungarian, Chinese, French, English, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Greek). By providing the reader with a view of metaphor and current metaphor research which is both diversified and coherent, this volume will provide insights for cognitive linguists, scholars involved in metaphor studies, and more generally readers interested in linguistic variation.

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization PDF eBook
Author Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 1013
Release 2021-07-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1108640079

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Surveying a wide range of languages and approaches, this Handbook is an essential resource for all those interested in language standards and standard languages. It not only explores the standardization of national European languages, it also offers fresh insights on the standardization of minoritized, indigenous and stateless languages.