Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language / Edition 1

by Christopher Hutton

Overview

This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and within the history of modern linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415189545
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/05/1998
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics , #1
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christopher M. Hutton currently teaches linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. He previously taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas, USA and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Whose History?; Chapter 2 The Defence of Cultural Diversity; Chapter 3 Academic Politics; Chapter 4 Etymology as Collective Therapy; Chapter 5 The Strange Case of Sonderführer Weisgerber; Chapter 6 ‘A Complicated Young Man with a Complicated Fate, in a Complicated Time’; Chapter 7 Yiddish Linguistics and National Socialism; Chapter 8 Vitalist Linguistics; Chapter 9 Linguistics, Race and the Horror of Assimilation;

Editorial Reviews

'...an extremely interesting book.' - Winifred V. Davies, German Politics Vol. 9, No.3 Dec 2000

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