by Xabier Zabaltza Pérez-Nievas · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474328097
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«Una historia de las lenguas y los nacionalismos» is the essay by Xabier Zabaltza, published by Gedisa in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
The essay analyzes how nationalisms, with or without a state, manipulate linguistic diversity. It criticizes the romantic idea that each language expresses a mentality and examines the relationship of language with class, territory, religion and race. The distinction between language and dialect is arbitrary: it is determined by national consciousness.
The author draws on some five hundred bibliographic references in a dozen languages; the book appears in the History and Philosophy categories.
A work aimed at readers interested in the history of ideas, sociolinguistics and the theory of nationalism.
