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Author Hutton, Christopher.

Title Linguistics and the Third Reich : mother-tongue fascism, race, and the science of language / Christopher M. Hutton.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 416 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge studies in the history of linguistics ; 1
Routledge studies in the history of linguistics ; 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-402) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Whose history?; Structuralism oppressed?; One linguistics or two?; The defence of cultural diversity; 'The struggle for freedom in research'; Reading the journals; Interpretative pitfalls; Academic politics; The purge in the universities; Gleichschaltung and cultural policy; Karl Vossler; Julius Schwietering; Hennig Brinkmann scholar spy; Adolf Bach; Academics in the totalitarian state; Etymology as collective therapy: Jost Trier's leap of faith; From structuralist to fascist?; The linguist in the vanguard of the mother-tongue.
Summary This book is an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and the history of modern linguistics.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Germany -- Languages -- Political aspects.
Germany.
Language and languages.
Linguistics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Linguistics.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject National socialism.
National socialism.
German language -- Political aspects.
German language -- Political aspects.
Yiddish language -- Political aspects.
Yiddish language -- Political aspects.
Yiddish language.
Racism in language.
Racism in language.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Linguistics and the 3rd Reich
Other Form: Print version: Hutton, Christopher. Linguistics and the Third Reich. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415189543 (DLC) 98013546 (OCoLC)38520156
ISBN 0203159268 (electronic book)
9780203159262 (electronic book)
0203021010 (electronic book)
9780203021019 (electronic book)
9780415189545
0415189543
0415189543 (Cloth)