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Author:   Monica Heller ,  Bonnie McElhinny
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781442606203

ISBN 10:   1442606207
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   25 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Preface: Hope Chapter 1: Language, Colonialism, Capitalism: Walking Backwards into the Future 1.1 Language and Inequality: A Warty Approach to a Red Thread World 1.2 Red Flags: Keywords, Hegemonies, Ideologies, and Warty Genealogies 1.3 Language Out of Place 1.4 Knotted Histories 1.5 The End of the Beginning PART I: LANGUAGE, INTIMACY, AND EMPIRE Chapter 2: Language and Imperialism I: Conversion and Kinship 2.1 ""The First Nations Bible Translation Capacity-Building Initiative"" 2.2 Colonialism, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Decolonization 2.3 Intimacy and Connection Across Four Continents 2.4 Reduced to and by Christian Love: Missionary Linguistics 2.5 Family Trees, Comparative Philology and Secular Religion Chapter 3: Language and Imperialism II: Evolution, Hybridity, History 3.1 ""Mixing Things Up"" 3.2 Imperialism and Industrial Capitalism 3.3 Evolutionary Theory: Language and/as Race 3.4 Slavery, Plantation, Labour, Trade & ""Mixed"" Languages 3.5 Americanist Anthropology: The Limits of Cultural Critiques of Evolutionary Racism 3.6 Linguistic Relativity, Colonial Ambivalence, and Modern Alienation PART II: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM Chapter 4: Language, Nation, State: Legitimizing Inequality 4.1 ""Le Symbole"" 4.2 The Emergence of the Nation-State in Europe 4.3 Markets and Liberal Democracy 4.4 Making Subjects Through Language 4.5 Language and Differential Citizenship 4.6 Creating Peripheries 4.7 Institutional Interaction: Regulating Relations in Industrial Capitalism 4.8 Making Scientific Linguistic Expertise Chapter 5: Internationalism, Communism and Fascism: Alternative Modernities 5.1 ""Visions of the Future"" 5.2 International Auxiliary Languages (IALs): Peace, Geopolitics and Structural Linguistics 5.3 Making Communist Linguistics 5.4. Language and Fascism 5.5 Fault-lines PART III: BRAVE NEW WORLDS: LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AS TECHNIQUE Chapter 6: The Cold War: Surveillance, Structuralism and Security 6.1 ""Black Out"" 6.2 Battles for Hearts and Minds 6.3 Internal Security: The Investigation of Linguists During the McCarthy Period 6.4 Suspicious Words, Suspicious Minds 6.5 Infrastructure and Institutionalization: Communication Studies, Area Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics 6.6 The New Search for Friction-Free International Communication: Machine Translation and the Rise of Syntax 6.7 Nineteen Eighty-Four as a Weapon of the Cold War Chapter 7: On the Origins of 'Sociolinguistics': Democracy, Development and Emancipation 7.1 ""A Dialectologist in India"" 7.2 Engineering Language: Literacy, Standardization and Education 7.3 Language Policy and Planning: Technocratic Solutions 7.4 Domestic Development and American Sociolinguistics 7.5 Challenging Consensus 7.6 The Rise of Sociolinguistics in Europe: Class and Conflict 7.7 The End of the Trente Glorieuses Chapter 8: Language in Late Capitalism: Intensifications, Unruly Desire and Re-Imagined Worlds 8.1 ""Nayaano-nibii maang Gichigamiin"" 8.2 Late Capitalism: The Expanding Reach of the Market and the Neoliberal State 8.3 Legitimizing Language and Critiquing Critique: Debates about Language and Inequality 8.4 Managing Your Assets: Language Quality, Linguistic Diversity and Citizenship 8.5 Brave New Selves: ""I am a Business, Man!"" 8.6 Harnessing Desire: Affect, Authenticity and Embodiment 8.7 Re-Capturing the Commons 8.8 Hands On, Hands Off: Reclamation, Redress, Refusal and Re-Imagining 8.9 This is How We Hope

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...a provocative history of the ways in which language ideologies and linguistic practices have served as a warrant for structures of social difference and social inequality from fifteenth-century imperial exploration to the neoliberal globalization of the present day. - Richard Bauman, Indiana University, Bloomington Ambitious, wide-ranging, and full of fascinating detail, this book really does offer a different kind of history of linguistic ideas, one that every sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist should read. - Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford Sweeping and breathtaking in scope, forking and turning in unexpected directions, yet deeply intimate and honest in its reflection, this book is a new model for critical engagement with the history of linguistics as a discipline. - Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore

""...a provocative history of the ways in which language ideologies and linguistic practices have served as a warrant for structures of social difference and social inequality from fifteenth-century imperial exploration to the neoliberal globalization of the present day.""--Richard Bauman, Indiana University, Bloomington ""Ambitious, wide-ranging, and full of fascinating detail, this book really does offer a different kind of history of linguistic ideas, one that every sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist should read.""--Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford ""Sweeping and breathtaking in scope, forking and turning in unexpected directions, yet deeply intimate and honest in its reflection, this book is a new model for critical engagement with the history of linguistics as a discipline.""--Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore

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Monica Heller is Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Bonnie McElhinny is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, and former Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

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