Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

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Christopher Hutton

Linguistics and the Third Reich

Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

Christopher Hutton

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English

Routledge
05 November 1998

linguistics; Literature: history & criticism; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Fascism & Nazism; Political oppression & persecution

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

In this ground-breaking work, Christopher Hutton demonstrates that an important component of European fascist thought was derived from linguistics, not least the notion of an Aryan people with an original language and homeland.

In Nazi Germany, linguistic fascism took the form of a cult

of the mother-tongue, expressed in a horror of linguistic assimilation and a xenophobic assertion of German language rights. Jews were considered to lack a healthy relationship to

the German language and therefore to threaten the bond between the Germans and their language. Linguistics and the Third Reich presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyzes the work of selected linguists, including Jost Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the policies of Hitlers state and within the history of modern linguistics. Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished and published sources, he attacks long-standing myths about the role of linguistics within the Nazi state and about the relationship of linguistics to race theory. This is the first single-volume guide to the linguistics of the Third Reich and fills a large gap in the literatur on National Socialist ideology. Huttons research makes a remarkable contribution to the understanding of links between linguistics and the development of European racial theory and to the field of the history of linguistics.

By: Christopher Hutton
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v.1
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 725g
ISBN: 9780415189545
ISBN 10: 0415189543
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 05 November 1998
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher M. Hutton currently teaches linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. He previously taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas, USA and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, UK.