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Title Progress in Language and Progress in Communication. The Case of Afrikaans. | ||
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http://hdl.handle.net/1871/12917 | ||
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Date 2008 | ||
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Author(s) Noordegraaf, J. | ||
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Abstract In this contribution it is pointed out that the notion of 'progress in language', as it was understood from Max Müller's popular Lectures on the science of language (1861-1863), was put to crucial use by linguistic scholars in South Africa during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. By applying Müller's Humboldtian insights on phonetic decay and dialectic regeneration to Cape Dutch, scholars such as Johannes Brill sought to legitimize their efforts to elevate this mainly spoken variety of Dutch to a full-fledged autonomous language, Afrikaans. Whereas Otto Jespersen starts from a rational, empirically underpinned hypothesis in 1894, his Afrikaans contemporary S.J. Du Toit turns in a more romantic direction by calling up the concept of Volksgeist. In this way Du Toit sought to present the theoretical underpinnings of the possibility of optimal communications within the community of Afrikaans language speakers. | ||
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Subject(s) progress in language; Afrikaans; Volksgeist; Otto Jespersen; Hugo Schuchardt; Max Müller; Johannes Brill; S.J. Du Toit. | ||
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Language en | ||
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Publisher Shaker Verlag Aachen | ||
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Relation Essener Studien zur Semiotik und Kommunikationsforschung | ||
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Type of publication Article in monograph or in proceedings | ||
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Rights (c) Jan Noordegraaf | ||
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Identifier Audiatur et altera pars. Kommunikationswissenschaft zwischen Historiographie, Theorie und empirischer Forschung. Festschrift für H. Walter Schmitz. Hrsg. von Achim Eschbach, Mark A. Halawa & Jens Loenhoff. Aachen: Shaker Verlag 2008, 209-223.; 978-3-8322-7347-7 | ||
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