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Linguistics and the Third Reich

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Linguistics and the Third Reich

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Linguistics and the Third Reich book

Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

Linguistics and the Third Reich

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Linguistics and the Third Reich book

Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language
ByChristopher Hutton
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1998
eBook Published 5 November 1998
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203021019
Pages 432
eBook ISBN 9780203021019
Subjects Language & Literature
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Hutton, C. (1998). Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203021019

ABSTRACT

This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and within the history of modern linguistics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|11 pages

Whose history?

chapter 2|32 pages

The defence of cultural diversity

chapter 3|29 pages

Academic politics

chapter 4|20 pages

Etymology as collective therapy: Jost Trier’s leap of faith

chapter 5|38 pages

The strange case of Sonderführer Weisgerber

chapter 6|44 pages

‘A complicated young man with a complicated fate, in a complicated time’: Heinz Kloss and the ethnic missionaries of the Third Reich

chapter 7|45 pages

Yiddish linguistics and National Socialism

chapter 8|27 pages

Vitalist linguistics, linguistics as theosophy and characterology

chapter 9|46 pages

Linguistics, race and the horror of assimilation

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