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Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: The Czech Orthography Wars

By Neil Bermel
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How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public controversy.
Delving back into history, Bermel explores the Czech nation's long tradition of intervention and its association with the purity of the language, an…

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