Linguistics and the Third Reich

Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-75759-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 158 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutton, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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.