"Good Savage" vs. "Bad Savage". Discourse and Counter-Discourse on Primitive Language as a Reflex of English Colonialism.
In the ideological construction of colonialism and, more widely, of any hierarchy of human communities, a crucial role is played by discourse on language. English nationalism and imperialism, in particular, developed extensive argumentations on language as an interpretation of the encounter with the...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 551 - 561 |
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