TY  - CHAP
A1  - Norberg, Jakob
T1  - The mother tongue at school
T2  - Untying the mother tongue / ed. by Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo ; Cultural Inquiry ; 26
N2  - This paper focuses on a key contradiction in nineteenth century nationalist ideology, namely the opposition between the emphasis on the sacred status of the mother tongue, on the one hand, and the use of universal mandatory schooling as a means of homogenization, on the other. The influential philologist Jacob Grimm insisted that only people whose mother tongue was German counted as members of the German nation; the mother tongue was the key criterion of authentic belonging. Yet Grimm also realized that mandatory schooling imposed a uniform language across a wide territory, wiping out local dialects and effectively giving shape to a more linguistically unified people. He thus witnessed how modern mass instruction forged a more standardized culture at the expense of the more natural-seeming transmission of language within families. In Grimm's writings on education, the valorization of the mother is continually disturbed by the presence of a surrogate figure, the school teacher.
KW  - Grimm, Jacob
KW  - Muttersprache
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Standardsprache
KW  - Mundart
KW  - Schule
KW  - Schulpflicht
KW  - Nationalismus
KW  - Nationalbewusstsein
KW  - Nationenbildung
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Nation building
KW  - Mother tongue
KW  - Schooling
KW  - Education, compulsory
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75513
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-755135
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-26/norberg_mother-tongue-at-school.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-050-3
SN  - 978-3-96558-051-0
SN  - 978-3-96558-049-7
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 85
EP  - 103
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -