This is the common thread running through the seven individual studies gathered here. Taken together, the essays in this volume suggest that the emergence of language as an autonomous object of discourse was closely connected with the consolidation of new and sometimes competing forms of political community in the period following the French Revolution and the global spread of European power. In an age of rising nationalism and expanding colonialism, the science of language has been intimately bound up with questions of immediate political concern.
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