Language, Society, History: The Balkans. This triple intertwining is the only legitimate -scientifically- path for the study of language. It highlights a constitutive dimension of the phenomenon "language" - the axiological dimension: the dimension of symbolic / imaginative investments that permeate the body of language, as connotations that determine the value of linguistic tools for their users.
The axiological dimension of language intersects with history and undergoes various re-significations. The creation of nation-states and its encounter with language defines a critical period of re-significations of this category. And the Balkan scene characteristically illustrates this linguistic phenomenology.
One can initially see what is often forgotten or downplayed by the naturalization of the relationship between the concepts of "nation" and "language," namely that these two concepts are not connected in a natural, genetic way.
[Excerpt from the text of the preface]
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Kentro Ellinikis Glossas
- Genre
- Linguistics Books
- Subtitle
- Proceedings of the International Conference, Thessaloniki 11-12 November 2001
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 501
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789607779403
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