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  1. Managing linguistic nationalism through ...

    Contemporary examples of linguistic nationalism are found in a wide variety of contexts, spanning the developed and developing world, within well-established liberal democracies, states in the midst of civil war, and formerly authoritarian regimes in the midst of democratic transition. ... in an essay written against the backdrop of the rise of ...

  2. Language: An Instrumental Tool for Nationalism

    Conclusion The aim of this essay was to demonstrate that language is a crucial tool of nationalism. The analysis showed that nation and nationalism are a modern idea that has surfaced with the industrial age. In addition, nationalism is accidental, and nation is imagined. Notions of nationalism are rooted in culture.

  3. The humanist roots of linguistic nationalism

    The paper argues that modern 'linguistic nationalism' has intellectual roots in Renaissance humanist thought. In their study of classical antiquity, the humanists found a powerful model of the relationship between language and politics, one which had eloquence as its central concept and theorized language as a source of social and political power and as a vehicle for glorifying the deeds of ...

  4. PDF The Impact of Language on Cultural Identity: Implications for

    Linguistic relativity is the view that language mirrors its users' cultural particularities and influences their thought processes in accordance with culturally rooted concepts, some of which are incommensurable. Its mobilising force lies in the idea that language is both a vehicle and an anchor for a People's cultural identity and continuity,

  5. 'They don't speak our language': identity in linguistics

    Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, linguistic nationalism inspired many a political conflict, as the consolidation of nation states was accompanied by a division between national languages and other languages. That the government in Islamabad made Urdu Pakistan's national language was a key factor triggering the secession of the eastern ...

  6. Language and Nationalism

    Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays ( Rowley, MA: Newbury House, 1972). Frei, Ernest. The Historical Development of the Philippine National Language (Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1959). Sibayan, Bonifacio P. and Andrew B. Gonzalez, FSC, eds. Language Planning and the Building of a National Language : Essays in Honor of Santiago A.

  7. PDF Linguistic Nationalism as a Consumption Item

    Linguistic Nationalism as a Protection Racket • Local Jobs Only to Those Fluent (mulki rules) • Subsidies from UNESCO, Summer Institute of Linguistics, European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages • The India Model (a 3 ± 1 language equilibrium with its Mulki rules) as the future of the EU (with a 2 ± 1 equilibrium) ...

  8. The Politics of Language and Nationalism

    Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner , the two most important theorists of nationalism , give a prominent role to language in their constructivist accounts. Benedict Anderson argues that language is an important factor, combined with capitalism and print-technology, to explain the origins of national consciousness.

  9. Nationalism and National Languages

    In the extensive scholarly literature on nationalism, it is widely recognized that language is important for building nations and states. Discussion of the issues of language and nationalism is quite difficult, however, due to the strong and often implicit normative claims involved, and because different sets of political and social connotations may be attached to such seemingly neutral and ...

  10. The paradox of contemporary linguistic nationalism: the case of

    Through a case study of the mobilisation around the Luxembourgish language in the 1970s and 1980s, this article investigates the paradox of contemporary linguistic nationalism, resulting from a hiatus between the continued influence of the classic nation-state model and the new constraints linked to a changed socio-historical context.

  11. Language and nationalism (Chapter 10)

    Langer, Nils and Davies's, Winifred (2005) edited book, Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages, is a useful collection on the puristic impulses that so often arise from the language-nationalism linkage; the particular focus on Germanic languages does not detract from the more broadly generalisable value here.

  12. Linguistics, ideology and the discourse of linguistic nationalism

    This study is concerned with dominant political discourse in the Czech Republic. This discourse is structured by the circulation of theories/discourses of multiculturalism, nationalism and social exclusion (or "social non-adaptability"). The political parties analyzed are the ODS, ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM, SZ, TOP 09, VV, Severočeši.cz, and ...

  13. PDF Language in Croatia: Influenced by Nationalism

    Language and nationalism are closely linked, and this paper examines the relationship between the two. Nationalism is seen to be a powerful force which is capable ofusing language for political purposes, and the field oflinguistics has developed terminologywithwhich the interface oflanguage and nationalism maybestudied.

  14. The paradox of contemporary linguistic nationalism: the case of

    Through a case study of the mobilisation around the Luxembourgish language in the 1970s and 1980s, this article investigates the paradox of contemporary linguistic nationalism, resulting from a hiatus between the continued influence of the classic nation‐state model and the new constraints linked to a changed socio‐historical context.

  15. Nationalism

    While ethnic nationalism might like to describe itself with the language of the family ... Consider what is arguably the most prominent anthology of high-profile philosophical papers on the justification of nationalism, The Morality of Nationalism (McKim & McMahan, 1997). The endnotes reveal that many chapters contain few or no references to ...

  16. Linguistic Nationalism: The Case of Southern Min

    Linguistic Nationalism: The Case of Southern Min 1 Jean DeBernardi Department of Anthropology, the University of Alberta I. Introduction ... An essay which accompanied the announcement of a lecture that he planned to deliver in the United States describes his goals: Owing to the century-long suppression by both the Japanese and the Chinese ...

  17. Language, Nationalism and Tagore

    In this chapter, I would attempt to offer a critique of Tagore's views on linguistic nationalism as reflected in one of his early essays where he expresses his views in a manner which was quite uncharacteristic of his later writings that uphold a strongly anti-communal liberal worldview. This essay was in Bangla, while his lectures on ...

  18. Linguistic Nationalism in Korea Under Japanese Occupation Essay

    Historical and Political Background of the Issue. Linguistic nationalism in Korea emerged during the 35-year occupation of the country by Japan which started in 1910 and ended in 1945. Scholars divide the Japanese rule into three major periods: subjugation, cultural accommodation, and assimilation.

  19. Language movements in Sri Lanka and Pakistan: exploring global

    Thus, Herder reveals that linguistic nationalism takes the dangerously ethnic turn when its civic elements are not properly utilised. Through Herder's method, I demonstrate the cause of conflict between language and cultural rights and other human rights. ... Mountbatten Papers, file no. 207, 17 April 1947. 38 Abdullah Haroon, 'Address of 10 ...

  20. Linguistic Nationalism Among the Basques

    Linguistic Nationalism Among the Basques. Dec 9, 2011 by Asya Pereltsvaig. BY CONNOR EVERETT KELLEY ("Languages of the World") On the 20th of October, 2011, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), an organization of Basque freedom fighters, announced a complete termination of their "campaigns of bombings and shootings" - in the group's own ...

  21. Nationalism

    Abstract. The relationship of language and nationalism has long been a matter of controversy. In the eyes of historians and students of culture, language has served as a major building block of nations. For them, national sentiment, based on a common cultural heritage, a common history or memory, and common descent (or a myth of such descent ...

  22. Linguistic Purism, Protectionism, and Nationalism in the Germanic

    This paper re-examines the notions of "linguistic purism" and "linguistic nationalism" with respect to public discourses of language cultivation in recent years in a number of Germanic-speaking countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and, briefly, Norway). In particular, the paper considers domain protection and attitudes ...

  23. Chinese Nationalism: Insights and Opportunities for Comparative Studies

    Nationalism and China: Oversights and Opportunities for Exploration. Though studies of Chinese nationalism are frequently dismissed as insular or walled off from comparative studies or ones attempting to build more general theories of nationhood, both bodies of scholarship exhibit similar blind spots.

  24. Jewish Nationality and Diaspora Nationalism: Reading Daniel ...

    Jewish Nationality and Diaspora Nationalism: Reading Daniel Boyarin Through Louis Brandeis. Daniel Boyarin ... he cared very little about the Jewish people. In a 1914 essay "The Fruits of Zionism," Brandeis (1942:29) wrote, "During most of my life my contact ... to use Brandeis's language, nationalities do not need ethnostates and, in ...

  25. Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?

    Yildiz quotes an essay by Tawada called "From the Mother Language to the Language Mother," in which a narrator describes the ways that learning German taught her to see language differently ...

  26. Opinion

    In 2019, the Palestinian Authority banned an L.G.B.T.Q.-rights group's activities in the West Bank, claiming they are "harmful to the higher values and ideals of Palestinian society."In 2016 ...

  27. PDF DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Washington State University

    4 • Writing for the profession: calls for papers, conference proposals, brief biographies, and other materials. • Job market preparation: how to assess your goals, read a job ad, and create a curriculum vitae (cv). • Conversations with and presentations by faculty and fellow graduate students. Students are expected to complete the following: attend and participate in the

  28. Microsoft at CHI 2024: Innovations in human-centered design

    Large Language Model for Mixed Reality (LLMR) is a framework for the real-time creation and modification of interactive mixed reality experiences using LLMs. It uses novel strategies to tackle difficult cases where ideal training data is scarce or where the design goal requires the synthesis of internal dynamics, intuitive analysis, or advanced ...

  29. 4 The Birth of the Language of Nationalism

    A text which better expounds the meaning of patriotism as commitment to the ideal of commonwealth is William Frend's essay Patriotism; or the Love of our Country, issued in 1804 in the aftermath of Napoleon's threatened invasion of Britain. Patriotism, he stresses, is a passion of generous and dignified souls induced by nature and sustained by ...

  30. Distributed Threat Intelligence at the Edge Devices: A Large Language

    Abstract. With the proliferation of edge devices, there is a significant increase in attack surface on these devices. The decentralized deployment of threat intelligence on edge devices, coupled with adaptive machine learning techniques such as the in-context learning feature of large language models (LLMs), represents a promising paradigm for enhancing cybersecurity on low-powered edge devices.