Title:

Making Sense of National Socialism: Linguistic Ideology and Linguistic Practices in Germany, 1933-1939

Advisor: Heller, Monica
Issue Date: Nov-2014
Abstract (summary): This work approaches the question of how to make sense of German National Socialism from a joint political economic and linguistic perspective. It charts the historical emergence of Nazism and its linguistic ideology before analysing its linguistic practices in the fields of law, the mass media, and education. Plying these two strands together, it is argued that a racially-inflected understanding of language as "mother-tongue" informed the Nazis' re-envisioning of German community, while certain practical uses of language contributed to the Nazi state's attempt to make this community both discursively and materially real. Finally, the possibility is raised of extending the mode of enquiry modelled here to Italian Fascism and Spanish Francoism, but also to the linguistic ideologies and practices that characterise global capitalism, in an attempt to make sense of the present.
Content Type: Thesis

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