Authority and identity [electronic resource] : a sociolinguistic history of Europe before the modern age / by Robert McColl Millar.
Language use is a principal means by which we distinguish ourselves and our group from others. In the modern age, language use often divides ethnic groups and nations: Germans are Germans because they speak German; French citizens must accept that Standard French is a central part of their national...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Sociology of Language: An Introduction
- Linguistic Prehistory
- The First European Literacies
- The First Hegemonies
- Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces. Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period
- Competing Hegemonies: The High Middle Ages
- The Birth of the Modern?: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.