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On the Border of Language and Dialect

By: Marjatta Palander,Helka Riionheimo,Vesa Koivisto

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On the Border of Language and Dialect

By: Marjatta Palander,Helka Riionheimo,Vesa Koivisto

This volume considers the linguistic borders between a language and a dialect as well as the administrative, cultural, and mental borders that affect the linguistic ones. The articles approach mental borders between dialects, dialect continua, and areas of mixed dialect, language ideologies, language mixing, and contact-induced language change. Karelian receives particular attention, being examined from multiple perspectives with attention to variation, maintenance, and the dialect perceptions of its speakers. Together, the articles paint a picture of multidimensional, multilingual, variable, and ever-changing linguistic reality where diverse borders, boundaries, and barriers meet, intertwine, and cross each other. The combination of the articles also aims to cross disciplinary and methodological borders and present new perspectives on earlier studies. .

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9522229164

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9789522229168

Finland at War

The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45

By: Vesa Nenye,Peter Munter,Toni Wirtanen,Chris Birks

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Finland at War

The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45

By: Vesa Nenye,Peter Munter,Toni Wirtanen,Chris Birks

In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland found itself drawing ever closer to Nazi Germany and eventually took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. For the Finns this was a chance to right the wrongs of the Winter War, and having reached suitable defensive positions, the army was ordered to halt. Years of uneasy trench warfare followed, known as the Continuation War, during which Finland desperately sought a way out, German dreams of victory were dashed, and the Soviet Union built the strongest army in the world. In the summer of 1944, the whole might of the Red Army was launched against the Finnish defences on the narrow Karelian Isthmus. Over several weeks of fierce fighting, the Finns managed to halt the Soviet assault. With Stalin forced to divert his armies to the race to Berlin, an armistice agreement was reached, the harsh terms of which forced the Finns to take on their erstwhile German allies in Lapland. Featuring rare photographs and first-hand accounts, this second volume of a two-part study, publishing in paperback for the first time, details the high price Finland had to pay to retain its independence and freedom.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472815270

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9781472815279

Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions

By: Vesa Kurkela,Markus Mantere

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Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions

By: Vesa Kurkela,Markus Mantere

During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard’s grand narratives, as a sign of what he diagnosed as our ’postmodern condition’, has become more or less an established and unquestioned point of departure among historians. This suspicion, at its most extreme, has led to a radical conclusion of the ’end of history’ in the work of postmodern scholars such as Jean Baudrillard and Francis Fukuyama. The contributors to Critical Music Historiography take a step back and argue that the radical view of the ’impossibility of history’, as well as the unavoidable ideology of any history, are counter-productive points of departure for historical scholarship. It is argued that metanarratives in history are still possible and welcome, even if their limitations are acknowledged. Foucault, Lyotard and others should be taken into account but systematized viewpoints and methods for a more critical and multi-faceted re-evaluation of the past through research are needed. As to the metanarratives of music history, they must avoid the pitfalls of evolutionism, hagiography, and teleology, all hallmarks of traditional historiography. In this volume the contributors put these methods and principles into practice. The chapters tackle under-researched and non-conventional domains of music history as well as rethinking older historiographical concepts such as orientalism and nationalism, and consequently introduce new concepts such as occidentalism and transnationalism. The volume is a challenging collection of work that stakes out a unique territory for itself among the growing body of work on critical music history.

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1317157214

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9781317157212

On the Border of Language and Dialect

By: Marjatta Palander,Helka Riionheimo,Vesa Koivisto

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By: Marjatta Palander,Helka Riionheimo,Vesa Koivisto

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On the Border of Language and Dialect

On the Border of Language and Dialect

Finland at War

Finland at War

Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions

Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions

On the Border of Language and Dialect

On the Border of Language and Dialect

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