Christopher Hutton

Biographic Data

ID3592336
NAMEChristopher Hutton
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMEHutton
SIGNATUREHUTTON C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hong Kong
ORCID0000-0002-0861-4168
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS82
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • The diffusion of Caucasian and Aryan in the United States

    Christopher HuttonARTICLELanguage & History2025

    The history of linguistics offers a fascinating field of study in its own right, as well as providing an important layer of reflexivity to current debates in linguistic theory. This paper argues for the complementary interest of the study of the circulation, diffusion and impact of linguistic and related scholarly concepts beyond the realm of academia. This approach involves the study of a wider range of texts, including popular scholarship, writ…

  • Ghosts of the past

    Christopher HuttonARTICLELanguage & History2022

    This paper considers the at-first-sight puzzling presence of Nazi linguistics as sources in two post-war sociolinguistic works, authored by Joshua Fishman and Uriel Weinreich respectively. It offers an account of who these Nazi linguists were and the basic ideological positions they represented. The argument is made that the presence of these sources reflects a wider problem in post-war sociolinguistics, namely a lack of awareness of the nature o…

  • Linguistique et anthropologie raciale en Allemagne nazie

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLECahiers du Centre de Linguistique…2022

    La question centrale que l'on se posera dans cet article est la façon dont les relations perçues entre la diversité physique et la diversité linguistique de l'espèce humaine ont été comprises dans le contexte du national-socialisme. On soutiendra que, même en Allemagne nazie, où l'idéologie raciale a joué un rôle si fondamental, il y avait un rôle potentiellement significatif pour une conception de l'identité humaine reposant sur le langage ou la…

  • Metalinguistic normativity and the supercategory

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELanguage & Communication2022Cited by: 1References: 18

  • Linguistics and the state

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2020References: 3

    In this contribution, Christopher Hutton discusses how states have historically taken an interest in, and funded, linguistics research. For a range of political purposes - including colonial rule and military strategy - knowing about and learning the language of "others" has been part of the projection and use of power. The specific purposes and forms of state support for research on language, argues Hutton, does vary depending on whether states …

  • The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonBOOKThe Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning2019

  • Lost in the hall of mirrors

    Christopher HuttonARTICLELanguage Culture and Society2019Cited by: 2References: 28

    The category Aryan and the paradigm of ideas associated with it remains highly controversial in contemporary India, and the history, status, and impact of this concept are contested at many levels. This paper starts with the assumption that the genesis of this concept lies in Western linguistic theorizing, and analyzes in outline the reception and impact of Aryan Invasion Theory and the postulation of an Aryan-Dravidian divide. Radical Hindu nati…

  • Integrationism and the Self

    Christopher HuttonBOOKIntegrationism and the Self2019Cited by: 2References: 40

    In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for suffering. This ground-breaking book draws from integrational semiology to investigate arguments around the rights of certain animals to be recognized as legal persons, thereby granting them many of the protections enjoyed by humans…

  • Racial ideology as elite discourse

    Christopher HuttonARTICLESocial Semiotics2017Cited by: 2References: 9

    Nordicism promoted a particular racial-bodily aesthetic, that of the tall, blond, blue-eyed individual, and promoted the view that the Nordic race was responsible for all the major achievements of humanity. However, modern “scientific” race theory recognized that there were no pure races, and few racially pure individuals. This complicated the presentation of racial ideas in the public sphere. In inter-war Germany and during the Nazi period, raci…

  • The self and the 'monkey selfie

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELanguage Sciences2017Cited by: 3References: 22

  • Rassedenken in der Sprach- und Textreflexion

    Marcel Lepper, Ute Tintemann et al.BOOKRassedenken in der Sprach- und…2015

    Die Philologie hat im 19. Jahrhundert wesentlich zum europäischen Rassismus beigetragen, gegen diesen aber auch zentrale anthropologische Wissensbestände behauptet. Der Band zeigt diesen Prozess anhand von Grundlagentexten und erläuternden Kommentaren. Früher als biologische Rassenlehren lieferte philologisches Wissen grundlegende »Erkenntnisse« über Ursprünge, Wesen und Potenziale menschlicher Kollektive. Die Entdeckungen der Sprach- und Textref…

  • The tangle of colonial modernity

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELaw/text/culture2014

    Hong Kong, or more formally, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), is a common law jurisdiction within the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Hong Kong was officially a British colony from 1843 to 1997, although colonial rule began in practice in 1841. Post-1997 Hong Kong is unusual in that it is a common law jurisdiction within a civil law state, the legal system of which was set up initially on the Soviet model. The People’s Republi…

  • Sprachauffassungen

    Christopher HuttonARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2012References: 2

    Preview this article: Sprachauffassungen: Studien zur Ideengeschichte der Sprachwissenschaft. Von Clemens Knobloch, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.39.2-3.15hut-1.gif

  • Roy Harris and integrational linguistics

    Open AccessChristopher Hutton, Chris Hutton et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2011References: 1

  • The politics of the language myth

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELanguage Sciences2011Cited by: 2References: 11

  • Who owns language? Mother tongues as intellectual property and the conceptualization of human linguistic diversity

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELanguage Sciences2010Cited by: 8References: 18

  • Language, religion and national identity in Europe and the Middle East

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELanguage2009

  • Human diversity and the genealogy of languages

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELanguage Sciences2008

  • Editors’ preface

    Open AccessChristopher Hutton, Hans‐georg Wolf et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2008

  • Language and the Law by Sanford Schane

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2008

  • Chajim H. Steinthal

    Christopher M Hutton, Christopher HuttonARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2005References: 1

    Preview this article: Chajim H. Steinthal: Sprachwissenschaftler und Philosoph im 19. Jahrhundert / Linguist and philosopher in the 19th century. Edited by Hartwig Wiedebach & Annette Winkelmann, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.32.1-2.15hut-1.gif

  • Authority and expertise in forensic linguistics

    Open AccessChristopher HuttonARTICLELanguage & Communication2005References: 2

  • Interpretation und Re-Interpretation

    Christopher M Hutton, Christopher HuttonARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2001References: 1

    Preview this article: Review of “Interpretation und Re-Interpretation: Aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Johann Leo Weisgerber” by Klaus D. Dutz (ed.), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.28.3.10hut-1.gif

  • Where China Meets Southeast Asia

    Ann Maxwell Hill, Grant Evans et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs2001

  • Race and the Third Reich

    Christopher Hutton