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Language, Nations, and Multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian Ideal

By Ying-Ying Tan (Editor), Pritipuspa Mishra (Editor)
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By Ying-Ying Tan (Editor), Pritipuspa Mishra (Editor)
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Language, Nations, and Multilingualism explores the legacy of Herder’s ideas about the relationship between language and nationalism in the post-colonial world. Focusing on how anti-colonial and post-colonial nations reconcile their myriad multilingualisms with the Herderian model of one language-one nation, it shows how Herder’s model is both attractive and problematic for such nations.

Why then does the Herderian model have such valency? How has the Herderian ideal of one nation-one langu...

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