"The form, beauty, and order of an ideal world" : an ideological analysis of linguistic idealization

This report presents a critique of the ideology that language is naturally "perfect" on some level of analysis, or, alternately, that it can be made to be perfect through processes of decontextualization or through the construction of a new language. I identify this ideology of linguistic...

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Main Author: Baumgartner, Rebecca Ann
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-98