The mother tongue at school
- 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.
Author: | Jakob NorbergGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-755135 |
URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-26/norberg_mother-tongue-at-school.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-26_4 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-050-3 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-051-0 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-049-7 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | Untying the mother tongue / ed. by Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo ; Cultural Inquiry ; 26 |
Publisher: | ICI Press |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/09/08 |
Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2023/09/21 |
Tag: | Education, compulsory; Mother tongue; Nation building; Nationalism; Schooling |
GND Keyword: | Grimm, Jacob; Muttersprache; Deutsch; Standardsprache; Mundart; Schule; Schulpflicht; Nationalismus; Nationalbewusstsein; Nationenbildung |
Page Number: | 19 |
First Page: | 85 |
Last Page: | 103 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 512765367 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur | |
Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft | |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 01.00.00 Allgemeine deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 01.00.00 Allgemeine deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > 01.08.00 Zu einzelnen Germanisten, Literaturtheoretikern und Essayisten |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |