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Publication details [#12598]

Gal, Susan and Kathryn Woolard. 2001. Languages and Publics. The Making of Authority. (Encounters 2). St Jerome. vii + 194 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
anthropological linguistics | authority | ideology | language and culture
ISBN
1-900650-42-8

Annotation

Intended as a contribution to recent developments in US linguistic anthropology, this volume investigates two related processes - the public construction of languages, and the linguistic construction of publics - by analyzing linguistic ideologies and historical practices of linguistic and cultural representation.

Articles in this volume

Gal, Susan and Kathryn Woolard. Constructing Languages and Publics. Authority and representation. 1–12
Irvine, Judith T. The Family Romance of Colonial Linguistics. Gender and family in nineteenth-century representations of African languages. 13–29
Gal, Susan. Linguistic Theories and National Images in Nineteenth-Century Hungary. 30–45
Bauman, Richard. Representing Native American Oral Narrative. The textual practices of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 46–68
Silverstein, Michael. From the Meaning of Meaning to the Empires of the Mind. Ogden's Orthological English. 69–82
Hill, Jane H. Mock Spanish, Covert Racism and the (Leaky) Boundary between Public and Private Spheres. 83–102
Errington, Joseph. State Speech for Peripheral Publics in Java. 103–118
Schieffelin, Bambi B. Creating Evidence: Making sense of written words in Bosavi. 119–140
Urla, Jacqueline. Outlaw Language. Creating alternative public spheres in Basque free radio. 141–163
Lee, Benjamin. Circulating the People. 164–181