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Japanese Language, Standard Language, National Language: Rethinking Language and Nation
The paper examines the relationship between language and nation through the historical process by which the modern Japanese language came to exist and proposes a tentative answer as to what this says about the nature of phenomena such as language and ...
Luka CULIBERG
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NATIONAL LANGUAGE & MINORITY LANGUAGE RIGHTS
This brief paper highlights the perspectives of those proposing and opposing the idea of Minority Language Right (MLR). Then, the paper relates this discussion to the context of bi/multilingualism in Indonesia by referring to cases of bi/multilingualism ...
Faishal Zakaria
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Ukrainian Legislation on National Language Policy and the Reality of Social Processes (1917–2021)
The relevance of the study of Ukrainian language legislation is determined by its mononational orientation and social inadequacy. The purpose of the article is to uncover the veiled basis of Ukrainization, starting from its terminological understanding ...
V. I. Mozgovoy
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Language Policy of the CIS Countries: Current State and Prospects [PDF]
Language policy issues are inextricably linked with the socio-political vectors of development of a state. The significance of this problem field is actualised with a number of examples from modern history, when the "language issue" became a source of ...
Anton A. Lavitski
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Dialect, language, nation: 50 years on [PDF]
AbstractOver 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled ‘Dialect, language and nation’ (Am Anthropol 68:922–935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of norm selection, codification, acceptance and ...
Joseph, J.E., Rutten, G., Vosters, R.
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Social and Political Transformations and the National Language [PDF]
The reflection of social transformations in language is an important issue in social linguistics, linguistic sociology, and anthropologist linguistics.
Yahya Modarresi
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Russian Language in Russian Identity: Theoretical Approaches and Current Context
The article is devoted to some aspects of the role of the Russian language in the Russian identity. It analyzes the main concepts of civil nationalism in the Western scientific literature, identifies their elements associated with giving the national ...
Ekaterina M. Arutyunova
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’Ich werde eingetaucht/in vás’? Peter Waterhouse’s Prosperos Land as Dynamisation of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. The assumption of the existence of well discernible national languages is at odds with the dynamic nature of language.
Dinah Schöneich
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In this paper, the term futsūgo (common language) was viewed over two periods. The first period (1880s-1894) was concerned with education but aimed to establish everyday, commonplace language and script that was familiar to the populace. However, by the
Saki Amano
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Languages, Nations and Identities [PDF]
This article reviews a range of ways in which issues of national identity have been shown to be linked with the topic of language. We suggest that there is scope for development both of the theoretical underpinning to claims made about the nature of these links, and also, in consequence, to the methodological approaches appropriate to empirical ...
Carter, Bob, Sealey, Alison
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