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DESCRIPTION:Scientific differentiation became a fundamental mechanism linke
 d to nationhood in the late nineteenth century. Those who advocated for th
 e universalization of ethnolinguistic concepts did so as part of an overar
 ching vision of academic modernity\, where the nation-state was to be cont
 inuously reflected through the scientific infrastructure of the university
 . Scientific methodology in linguistic study would make national sovereign
 ty objective. When linguists in nineteenth-century Germany and Meiji Japan
  made claims to speak for the national mind\, the use of global scientific
  standards strengthened those claims by naturalizing the ethnolinguistic c
 ommunity-as-nation as a psycho-mechanical certainty. This reality created 
 a paradox at the heart of modern linguistics: a globalized methodology was
  bolstering the episteme of irreducible national essence\, a category it w
 as circularly configured to substantiate.\n   Placing the methodological d
 ecisions and disciplinary positioning of the “intellectual middle” fro
 nt and center\, this article addresses questions of nationalism vis-à-vis
  global intellectual connection: how did non-Euro-American intellectuals s
 uch as Ueda Kazutoshi (1867-1937) secure the scientific legitimacy of nati
 onal particularity? Through the prism of the Neogrammarian methods and the
  institutionalization of Gengogaku in Japan\, I demonstrate the practice o
 f science as a locus of socio-intellectual alignment in difference-making 
 rather than Eurocentric diffusion.\n   This article undertakes a compariso
 n of the 1878 Neogrammarian _manifesto_ and Ueda’s 1895 lecture notes\, 
 _Nihongogaku no Hongen_\, at the Imperial University of Tokyo. It argues t
 hat the spontaneity and contingency behind the mysticity of the modern nat
 ion-state was cunningly covered as the result of deliberate methodological
  operations—erasure\, iconicity\, and recursion—transforming the fluid
  messiness of speech into the rigid\, law-governed boundaries of a global 
 enterprise. By centering these disciplinary acts\, the study reveals that 
 national languages emerged not despite transnational regime of science\, b
 ut as its essential byproduct.
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LOCATION:Room 302 (Seats 48)
SUMMARY:Lines of Sound\, Lines of Nation: Ueda Kazutoshi\, the Neogrammaria
 ns\, and the Transnational Grammar of Modernity - SeungHyeon Pyo
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/QSUNNP/
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