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The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366-1922
A Sourcebook
Series: The Politics of Language
For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religious and cultural difference.Collected here for the first time are texts on language from the date of...
Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge
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Language in History
Theories and Texts
Series: The Politics of Language
In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For...
Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge