Linguistic authority, language ideology, and metaphor : the Czech orthography wars : Bermel, Neil : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

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How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Orthographic reform and language planning -- Chapter 2 Standard Czech in its social and linguistic setting -- Chapter 3 Spelling reform in Czech, 14001900 -- Chapter 4 Spelling reform in Czech, 19001980 -- Chapter 5 Czech orthographic reform, 19801994 -- Chapter 6 The actors in spelling reform: Issues and debates -- Chapter 7 Debating linguistics, authority, and legitimacy -- Chapter 8 Metaphors and the conceptualization of language -- Chapter 9 Conclusions -- Backmatter