The Golden Mean of Languages
Title | The Golden Mean of Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Alisa van de Haar |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 439 |
Release | 2019-09-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004408592 |
Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both French and Dutch were spoken as local tongues.
Translating Early Modern Science
Title | Translating Early Modern Science PDF eBook |
Author | Sietske Fransen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900434926X |
Translating Early Modern Science explores the essential role translators played in a time when the scientific community used Latin and vernacular European languages side-by-side. This interdisciplinary volume illustrates how translators were mediators, agents, and interpreters of scientific knowledge.
Self-presentation and Social Identification
Title | Self-presentation and Social Identification PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Letters |
ISBN | 9789058672124 |
Renaissance Linguistics Archive (1.0) : Online Publication of the Bibliographic Repertorium of Secondary Literature (1870-1999)
Title | Renaissance Linguistics Archive (1.0) : Online Publication of the Bibliographic Repertorium of Secondary Literature (1870-1999) PDF eBook |
Author | Mirko Tavoni |
Publisher | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Pages | 3692 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 394079399X |
The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book
Title | The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Pettegree |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351881892 |
This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration of the variety of genres that emerged in the 16th century and how they were used; a look at publishing and book-selling strategies and networks, and the ways in which the authorities tried to control these; and a discussion of the way in which confessional literature diverged and converged. The range of specialist knowledge embedded in this study will ensure its appeal to specialists in French history, scholars of the book and of 16th-century French literature, and historians of religion.
Das Paradigma Der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne
Title | Das Paradigma Der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred Schmeling |
Publisher | Königshausen & Neumann |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter |
ISBN | 9783826033827 |
In Babel's Shadow
Title | In Babel's Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Tuska Benes |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780814333044 |
A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany. In contrast to fields like anthropology, the history of linguistics has received remarkably little attention outside of its own discipline despite the undeniable impact language study has had on the modern period. In Babel's Shadow situates German language scholarship in relation to European nationalism, nineteenth-century notions of race and ethnicity, the methodologies of humanistic inquiry, and debates over the interpretation of scripture. Author Tuska Benes investigates how the German nation came to be defined as a linguistic community and argues that the "linguistic turn" in today's social sciences and humanities can be traced to the late eighteenth century, emerging within a German tradition of using language to critique the production of knowledge. In this volume, Benes suggests that nineteenth-century philologists interpreted language as evidence of ethnic descent and created influential myths of cultural origin around the perceived starting points of their mother tongue. She argues that the origin paradigm so prevalent in German linguistic thought reinforced the historical and ethnic focus of German nationhood, with important implications for German theologians, cultural critics, philosophers, and racial theorists. In Babel's Shadow also contextualizes the importance of linguistics to modern cultural studies by arguing that the cultural significance attributed to language in twentieth-century French philosophy dates to the late eighteenth century and has clear precedents in theology. Benes links the German tradition of reflecting on the autonomous powers of language to the work of the fathers of structuralist and poststructuralist thought, Ferdinand de Saussure and Friedrich Nietzsche. In Babel's Shadow makes clear that comparative philology helped make language an important model and informing metaphor for other modes of thinking in the modern human sciences. Cultural and intellectual historians, scholars of German language and literature, and linguists will enjoy this illuminating volume.