EURO-DENTITY: Webs of Language and Self

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The lecture EURO-DENTITY: Webs of Language and Self features speakers Bernardo Atxaga and Ilan Stavans, who explore the evolution of languages spoken by a small number of the earth's inhabitants. Atxaga notes how the Basque language of Euskara [...]received little to no recognition of its existence until the cultural movement of Romanticism gave it value. Stavans speaks of how the Hebrew language has experienced a revival, increasing from a vocabulary of 8,000 words to one of approximately 100,000 today.

Hosted by Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University on May 4, 2009.
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