Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 19
Making language in the seventeenth century......Page 23
Tradition, orality, and the discourse of others......Page 28
2 Making language and making it safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Locke......Page 37
Francis Bacon and the scientific mistrust of language......Page 38
Language and civility in seventeenth-century science......Page 44
The mission of Locke’s Essay......Page 47
Towards a doctrine of signs......Page 50
The “cheat and abuse” of words......Page 54
Linguistic reform and social inequality......Page 59
Extending the attack on rhetoric......Page 62
Language reform and social order......Page 66
The Essay vis-à-vis the Two Treatises......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 77
Introduction......Page 88
Antiquarian constructions of modernity and the discursive Other......Page 90
John Aubrey (1626–1697)......Page 91
Henry Bourne (1696–1733)......Page 98
John Brand (1744–1806)......Page 103
Philology, relativism, and conjectural history......Page 107
Thomas Blackwell (1701–1757)......Page 108
Robert Wood (1717?–1771)......Page 117
The science of biblical poetics......Page 126
Relativist perspectives on figurative language......Page 132
The translation of Isaiah......Page 134
Conclusion......Page 138
Introduction......Page 146
Hugh Blair......Page 149
The beginnings of society and the origin of poetry......Page 151
Poetry and progress: Gothic, Celtic, Greek......Page 156
The creation and authorization of a Scottish national epic......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 177
5 Language, poetry, and Volk in eighteenth-century Germany: Johann Gottfried Herder’s construction of tradition......Page 181
Language, poetics, and tradition in Herder......Page 183
Conclusion: Herder vis-à-vis Locke......Page 207
6 Scientizing textual production in the service of the nation: the Brothers Grimm and Germanic philology......Page 215
Romanticism, scientism, and textual authority......Page 216
Textual mediations of science and society......Page 221
Textual ideologies and metadiscursive practices......Page 224
History, “inner unity,” and the authority of scholarly metadiscursive practices......Page 232
Creating texts and symbolic capital for nationalist and cosmopolitan projects......Page 235
7 The making of an American textual tradition: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft’s Indian researches......Page 244
Colonialism, commodification, and the production of a national literature......Page 261
Conclusion......Page 268
8 The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas’s cosmopolitan charter for anthropology......Page 273
Boas’s view of language......Page 275
Tradition, anthropology, and the modern subject......Page 285
The collaborative production of Native American texts......Page 292
Language, tradition, and the anthropological gaze......Page 300
On the cultural limits to anthropological cosmopolitanism......Page 307
Conclusion......Page 311
9 Conclusion......Page 317
Disrupting modernity......Page 327
Epilogue: imagining postmodern futures......Page 336
References......Page 340
Index......Page 366