TY - JOUR N2 - Following the 19th-century language debates on the language of science and higher education, this paper follows three Polish texts from the middle of the century dealing with the Galician school and university system. These dispositives of language discourse, defined here as an outcome of the transformations at the nexus of hegemony, linguistic theories and the remainders of the Republic of Letters ideology, are analysed concerning the positioning of the Polish language as confronted with German and Ruthenian/Ukrainian, as well as the political implications resulting from the perceived misbalance. Given the political context of Habsburg neoabsolutism’s hierarchical understanding of languages and its application, the authors deal with both deconstructing the underlying ideology concerning German, and sustain it regarding Ruthenian L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109558/PDF-MASTER/8%20Postcolonial_Surman.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109558 PY - 2012 EP - 174 KW - higher education KW - Galicia KW - postcolonialism KW - language KW - nationality A1 - Surman, Jan PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie PB - Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego VL - vol. 42 English-German version DA - 2012 T1 - Symbolism, communication and cultural hierarchy. Galician discourses of language hegemony at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century SP - 151 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109558 T2 - Historyka Studia Metodologiczne ER -