Learning languages in early modern England
著者
書誌事項
Learning languages in early modern England
Oxford University Press, 2019
1st ed
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
注記
Bibliography: p. [213]-263
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'.
Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters
where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's
'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel.
Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.
目次
Introduction
1: Extracurricular Economy: Language Teachers and Language Schools in Early-Modern England
2: Speaking Books: The Early Modern Conversation Manual
3: To Be Languaged: Early Modern Linguistic Competences
4: A Conversable Knowledge: Language-Learning and Educational Travel
Conclusion
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