The contest of language : before and beyond nationalism / edited by W. Martin Bloomer.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bloomer, W. Martin
Language:	English
Published:	Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:	Language and languages > Political aspects. Linguistic minorities.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	274 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Latin versus Italian: the linguistic crisis of the early Italian renaissance / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr
The persistence of Syriac / Joseph P. Amar
Duthaigh and Duchas in sixteenth-century Ireland / Peter McQuillan
Language and imperial ideology in late antiquity and early Islam / Dimitri Gutas
"Till some person attain to the universal monarchy": seventeenth-century language technologies and what they say / Haun Saussy
Nationalism without linguism: tolerating Chinese variants / Susan D. Blum
Whose language is it anyway? The Irish and the English language / Tony Crowley
Speaking in Glossai: dialect choice and cultural politics in Hellenistic poetry / Richard Hunter
Marble Latin: encounters with the timeless language / W. Martin Bloomer
Dumbness and eloquence: a note on English as we write it in Ireland / Seamus Deane
Afterword. philosophy and its languages: a philosopher's reflections on the rise of English as the universal academic language / Vittorio Hosle.