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These essays, written by scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Sociolinguistics

• Full title: Contest of Language
• Subtitle: Before and Beyond Nationalism
• Author: W Martin Bloomer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780268021900
• ISBN: 9780268021900
• ID: 06319924
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2005

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