Mother Tongues and Nations : the Invention of the Native Speaker.

This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors, "mother tongue" and "native speaker," by historicizing their linguistic development. Early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography...

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Main Author: Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul, 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 226.
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