Mother Tongues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mother Tongues write by Barbara Johnson. This book was released on 2003-11-30. Mother Tongues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them--links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments--that Barbara Johnson maps the coordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every area of life, and about the damage done by this ideal. The existence of sexual difference precludes an original or ultimate "one" who would represent all of mankind; the plurality of languages makes it impossible to think that one doesn't live in translation; and the plurality of the sexes means that every human being came from a woman's body, and some will reproduce this feat, while others won't. In her most personal and deeply considered book about difference, Johnson asks: Is the mother the guardian of a oneness we have never had? The relations that link mothers, bodies, words, and laws serve as the guiding puzzles as she searches for an answer.
Mother Tongues and Nations
Mother Tongues and Nations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mother Tongues and Nations write by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio. This book was released on 2010-06-29. Mother Tongues and Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of “mother tongue” and “native speaker” by historicizing their linguistic development. It shows how the early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race. This ideology invented myths of congenital communities that configured the national language in a symbiotic matrix between body and physical environment and as the ethnic and corporeal ownership of national identity and local organic nature. These ethno-nationalist gestures informed the philology of the early modern era and generated arboreal and genealogical models of language, culminating most divisively in the race conscious discourse of the Indo-European hypothesis of the 19th century. The philosophical theories of organicism also contributed to these ideologies. The fundamentally nationalist conflation of race and language was and is the catalyst for subsequent permutations of ethnolinguistic discrimination, which continue today. Scholarship should scrutinize the tendency to overextend biological metaphors in the study of language, as these can encourage, however surreptitiously, genetic and racial impressions of language.
Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mother Tongue write by Joel Davis. This book was released on 1994. Mother Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author "presents the latest and most controversial research from the origins of language itself to the way the human brain makes and stores it, as well as how infants create it."--Jacket.
Mother Tongues
Mother Tongues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mother Tongues write by Tsitsi Ella Jaji. This book was released on 2019-11-15. Mother Tongues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear. How deep does your language go back? Jaji’s artful verse is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues speak the beginnings and the present; they capture and claim the losses, the ironies, and a poet’s human evolution. Mother Tongues is a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to the heart.
Notes on Mother Tongues
Notes on Mother Tongues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notes on Mother Tongues write by Mirene Arsanios. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Notes on Mother Tongues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
