By Robert McColl Millar (auth.)
Language, kingdom and gear offers scholars with a dialogue of the ways that language has been (and is being) used to build nationwide (or ethnic) identification. It makes a speciality of the methods wherein a language will be deliberate and standardized and what the result of those techniques are. specific emphasis is given to the old and social results which nationalism has had at the improvement of language because the French Revolution. for college kids of linguistics, sociology and politics.
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Another problem which is not recognized is where similar linguistic usages are treated as if they were separate from each other. Thus, there would be no way of telling that, in the former Czechoslovakia, the two Language and Dialect 37 official and standardized languages – Czech and Slovak – were mutually intelligible, and that there are cultural and historical, rather than linguistic, reasons, why this distinction should be made. Another example of this phenomenon is Norway. That country was, until very recently, ethnically and culturally homogenous.
Example: Pali in Ceylon, where it is the language of the Buddhist scriptures and is widely studied by monks and scholars. (b) It is widely used for literary purposes. Example: ‘Classical’ Chinese in Taiwan, used for some forms of modern literature and studied for the classics of older Chinese literature. (c) It is widely taught as a subject in secondary schools. Example: French in Spain, where most secondary school students [in the early 1960s] study French as a foreign language. (d) It is used by a substantial number of people as a lingua franca within the country.
Does this make German less of a language than Finnish? The problem becomes exacerbated when we talk of dialect. Different people interpret the word differently. I am often told, particularly in German-speaking countries, that my dialect of English is difficult to follow when I am actually speaking Standard English with a Scottish accent. The popular use of the term is obviously at odds with the scientific. Yet what do linguists mean by dialect? Dutch is much closer to German than is English. Somebody from Amsterdam cannot understand someone from Munich if both are speaking their native dialects or their standard national language.