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Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 9780947623135
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language written by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Rickard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859913539
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The French Language in the Seventeenth Century written by Peter Rickard and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixty French texts edited here are all direct commentaries, by contemporary authors, on the French language in the 17th century. By this time, French had begun to assert its independence; in its written and printed form it was being used for a wide variety of literary, technical and administrative purposes. Its practitioners not only successfully challenged the hitherto dominant position of Latin, but also began, for the first time, to discuss and analyse for its own sake the language which was now their preferred medium for expression -- hence, in the first half of the seventeenth century, a growing number of publications on the nature and characteristics of French. The texts demonstrate the sustained critical preoccupationwith the welfare of the French language in the 17th century, and illustrate the various ways in which the writers of the age contributed to its development as an instrument of literary expression and social intercourse.
Author : Peter Rickard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134838786
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book A History of the French Language written by Peter Rickard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating a description of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, and the earliest recorded forms of French, the development of the French language through the later Middle Ages and Renaissance period is documented, to show the extent of standardization of form in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134856636
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book A History of the French Language Through Texts written by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves. It combines texts and extracts with a readable and detailed commentary allowing the language to be viewed both synchronically and diachronically. Core texts range from the ninth century to the present day highlight central features of the language, whilst a range of shorter texts illustrate particular points. The inclusion of non-literary, as well as literary texts serves to illustrate some of the many varieties of French whether in legal, scientific, epistolatory, administrative or liturgical or in more popular domains, including attempts to represent spoken usage. This is essential reading for the undergraduate student of French.
Author : R. Anthony Lodge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521821797
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French written by R. Anthony Lodge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population.
Author : William Jervis Jones
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283834
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Images of Language written by William Jervis Jones and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also shaping and demarcating the identity and image of their native tongue. The first essay outlines and illustrates what European linguists believed, in an age before the advent of comparative philology, about the historical-genetic position of German within the circle of Classical and modern European languages. Three further essays explore the surprisingly rich diversity of approach and method in earlier foreign-word purism, the puristic use of lexis and metaphor (with special reference to gender-specific imagery), and prominent reaction to the intrusive foreign word in German military usage. The last two essays span a wide range of attitudes and reaction to the French language among German speakers, and early German perceptions of that marginal (and in the popular view excessively contaminated) language, English. The work makes frequent reference to contemporary views of other languages, including Hebrew, Greek Latin, Italian and Spanish. Documented with much new material from about 300 original sources, these essays bring to light the ideas aired by many hitherto neglected personalities, whilst also deepening our understanding of better-known figures and their work.
Author : Kenneth Haynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199261903
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book English Literature and Ancient Languages written by Kenneth Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign languages are introduced, or if a native style is self-consciously developed, or when aspects of English are remade in the image of another language. Since theRenaissance, Latin and Greek have been an important presence in British poetry and prose. This is partly because of the importance of the ideals and ideologies founded and elaborated on Roman and Greek models. Latin quotations and latinate English have always been ways to represent, scrutinize, orsatirize the influential values associated with Rome. The importance of Latin and Greek is also due to the fact that they have helped to form and define a variety of British social groups. Lawyers, Catholics, and British gentlemen invested in Latin as one source of their distinction fromnon-professionals, from Protestants, and from the unleisured. British attitudes toward Greek and Latin have been highly charged because the animus that existed between groups has also been directed toward these languages themselves. English Literature and Ancient Languages is a study of literaryuses of language contact, of English literature in conjunction with Latin and Greek. While the book's emphasis is literary, that is formal and verbal, its goal is to discover how social interests and cultural ideas are, and are not, mediated through language.
Author : Sara E. Melzer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205189
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Colonizer or Colonized written by Sara E. Melzer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had colonized their ancestors, the Gauls. This memory put the elite on the defensive—defending against the legacy of this colonized past and the fear that they were the barbarian other. The second story mirrored the first. Just as the Romans had colonized the Gauls, France would colonize the New World, becoming the "New Rome" by creating a "New France." Borrowing the Roman strategy, the French Church and State developed an assimilationist stance towards the Amerindian "barbarian." This policy provided a foundation for what would become the nation's most basic stance towards the other. However, this version of assimilation, unlike its subsequent ones, encouraged the colonized and the colonizer to engage in close forms of contact, such as mixed marriages and communities. This book weaves these two different stories together in a triangulated dynamic. It asks the Ancients to step aside to include the New World other into a larger narrative in which elite France carved out their nation's emerging cultural identity in relation to both the New World and the Ancient World.
Author : Linda Pillière
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110719105X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Standardising English written by Linda Pillière and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading researchers shed new light on the history of the standardisation of English.
Author : Hans-Josef Niederehe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902724541X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book History and Historiography of Linguistics written by Hans-Josef Niederehe and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 contains the following sections: I. Generalia; II. Antiquity; III. Arabic Linguistics; IV. Middle Ages; V. Renaissance; VI. 17th Century. Volume 2 continues with: VII. 18th Century; VIII. 19th Century; IX. 20th Century; and provides Author and Subject Indexes.
Author : Gerald N. Sandy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004119161
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Classical Heritage in France written by Gerald N. Sandy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France.
Author : Janice Carruthers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192647075
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French written by Janice Carruthers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together two particularly dynamic areas of contemporary research on the French language. The chapters showcase the most innovative current scholarship in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and in the burgeoning field of historical sociolinguistics which lies at their intersection. The research across the volume is strongly data-centred, drawing on a wide range of both well-established and more novel theoretical and methodological approaches in order to open up new perspectives on the study of the French language in the twenty-first century. Although it is written in English, the work presented here is underpinned by a range of different approaches from across the Francophone and Anglophone worlds. Particular emphasis is placed on combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, on diversifying tools, methods, and objects of inquiry, and on adopting comparative and multilingual perspectives where these shed new light on important questions relating to French. In these ways, Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French highlights some of the most exciting new directions for linguistic research on the French language.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521535861
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.
Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004387633
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Regimes of Comparatism written by Renaud Gagné and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks at how different theories and practices of writing and interpretation have developed at different times in different cultures and reconsiders the specificities of modern comparative approaches within a variety of comparative moments. The idea is to reconsider the specificities, the obstacles, and the possibilities of modern comparative approaches in history and anthropology through a variety of earlier and parallel comparative horizons. Particular attention is given to the exceptional role of Athens and Jerusalem in shaping the Western understanding of cultural difference. Contributors are: Matei Candea, Philippe Descola, Renaud Gagné, Simon Goldhill, Anthony Grafton, Caroline Humphrey, Dmitri Levitin, Geoffrey Lloyd, Joan-Pau Rubiés, Jonathan Sheehan, Marilyn Strathern, Guy Stroumsa, and Phiroze Vasunia.
Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192634410
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the French Language written by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today.
Author : Françoise Jaouën
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seventeenth-Century French Writers written by Françoise Jaouën and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on French writers of the seventeenth-century, or Classical century. What best defines the literature of this period are political order and the growing awareness of literature as a separate domain in need of rules and regulations. Discusses the political turmoil during this period as well as the Reformation and the Counter Reformation encouraging research on ancient tests, methods of research, and the standardization of the French language.
Author : Freeman G. Henry
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479596
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Language, Culture, and Hegemony in Modern France written by Freeman G. Henry and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this panoramic study, Freeman Henry chronicles the rise to prominence of French language and culture. He meticulously analyzes the protracted government-sponsored efforts to foster and maintain that status and--ultimately--the latter-day challenges to France's national linguistic identity posed by Anglocentric globalization and a multicentric European Union. The internal history of the language is closely intertwined with its external history: phonology, morphology, lexicography, and orthography come alive against a backdrop of political, cultural, and institutional manifestations. A felicitous blend of documentary evidence and critical analysis serves to elucidate crucial stages, events, and concepts: 16th-century exuberance, 17th-century foundations, 18th-century expansionism, Revolutionary ideology. Restoration restructuring and commercialization, the advent of linguistic science, the coming of the media age, encroaching technocracy, and clamors for linguistic parity. Individual chapter focus on the plight of minority linguistic communities such as the blind and the deaf, language monitoring policies and legislation such as the Loi Toubon, as well as the feminization project legitimizing Madame la ministre. --Publisher description.
