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The power of standards : hybrid authority and the globalisation of services
Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical arg…
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- 9781108759038
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- x, 258p. : ill.
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- 658.562 GRA p
Language planning as nation building : ideology, policy and implementation in…
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one …
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- 9789027262769
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- x, 312p. : ill.
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- 306.449492 RUT l
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