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Publication details [#46546]
Bermel, Neil. 2007. Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: The Czech Orthography Wars. (Language, Power and Social Process 17). De Gruyter. XII+369 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
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Annotation
This book discusses the controversy over the language reforms of the 1990s in the post-communist Czech Republic, examining underlying language ideologies, strategies used to gain linguistic authority and metaphors on language.