Mother Tongues and Nations: The Invention of the Native Speaker 9781934078266, 9781934078259

This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of “mother tongue” and “

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Mother Tongues and Nations: The Invention of the Native Speaker
 9781934078266, 9781934078259

Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Deconstructing the native speaker
Chapter 2: Nativity and the nation state
Chapter 3: Antiquity and the absence of ethnolinguistic nationalism
Chapter 4: From sermo patrius to lingua materna
Chapter 5: Abstracting the secular: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the eighteenth century
Chapter 6: Reconstructing Eden: Genealogies of language in the nineteeth century
Chapter 7: Scholarship in the maternal arboretum of language
Conclusion
Backmatter

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