Dmitri van den Bersselaar

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dmitri van den Bersselaar plays a role.

Article

Bersselaar, Dmitri van den. 2000. The Language of Igbo Ethnic Nationalism. Language Problems and Language Planning 24:2, pp. 123–147

Starting from Benedict Anderson’s notion that nationalism evolves around a vernacular readership, this article explores the relation between a nation or ethnic group and ‘its’ language. It analyses the link between ideas about Igbo language and the rise of Igbo ethnic identity in twentieth-century… read more | Article