Linguistics and the Third Reich : mother-tongue fascism, race, and the science of language
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Linguistics and the Third Reich : mother-tongue fascism, race, and the science of language
（Routledge studies in the history of linguistics, 1）
Routledge, 2014
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Linguistics and the 3rd Reich : mother-tongue fascism, race, and the science of language
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 1999 ... First issued in paperback 2014"--T.p. verso
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Description
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.
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 Sonderfuhrer 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
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