《Language, Self and Society》是1991年Polity出版的圖書，作者是Peter Burke、Roy Porter eds.。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Language, Self and Society
- 作者： Peter Burke 、 Roy Porter eds.
- 出版時間：1991年1月
- 出版社： Polity
- 頁數：368 頁
- ISBN：9780745613413
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
This important book examines the role of written and spoken language in shaping our sense of reality, in exchanges of social life, and in fashioning our sense of self. It develops a distinctive, socio-historical approach to these issues, offering a range of illuminating studies in the social history of language.
The first section discusses the history of specially charged languages (Latin, Hebrew, and the speech-forms of the Quakers). The second section examines the politics of language, paying special attention to dialect and the relations between the language of conquerors and the conquered. In the third section, the relation between forms of expression and the development of personal self-definition is discussed.
This key work will make a major contribution to the interdisciplinary study of language. It will be of interest to students and researchers in social history, linguistics, and the history and sociology of language.
作者簡介
Peter Burke is a Reader in Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Roy Porter is a Professor of the History of Medicine at The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
