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Christopher Hutton
The University of Hong Kong
Christopher Hutton is chair professor in The School of English at The University of Hong Kong. He is investigating the links between linguistic theory and race theory, and the history of race theory, following on from his 1999 study of linguitics and ideology in Nazi Germany.
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Linguistics and the Third Reich
July 16, 2020 | 9:00 AM
An insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the policies of Hitler’s state and within the history of modern linguistics. Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished and published sources, he attacks long-standing myths about the role of linguistics within the Nazi state and about the relationship of linguistics to race theory.