Language, Nations, and Multilingualism

Name: Language, Nations, and Multilingualism
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Language, Nations, and MultilingualismQuestioning the Herderian Ideal\nAuthor(s): Ying-Ying Tan, Pritipuspa Mishra\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138322639, 978-1138322639\nSynopsis\nLanguage, Nations, and Multilingualism explores the legacy of Herders 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 Herders 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 language continued to survive beneath the uncomfortable resolution struck by new multilingual nations as they create fictions of a singular national mother tongue? To what extent is Herder still relevant in our contemporary world? How have different na.