| Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe Contributor(s): Burke, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521828961 ISBN-13: 9780521828963 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: Peter Burke explores major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution. One theme is the relation between languages and communities and the place of language as a way of identifying others, as well as a symbol of one's own identity. A second, linked theme is that of competition: between Latin and the vernaculars, different vernaculars, dominant and subordinate, and different varieties of the same vernacular. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306.440 |
| LCCN: 2004045499 |
| Series: Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfast |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 226 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Burke, Peter: - Peter Burke is Professor of Cultural History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge. He has published over twenty books which have been translated into over thirty languages. |