J.G. Schottelius's Ausfhrliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663) and its Place in Early Modern European Vernacular Language Study

Nicola McLellands study of J. G. Schotteliuss Ausfhrliche Arbeit (AA) is a masterly exploration of an important milestone in the history of German. (Modern Language Review, 1 July 2014)

Nicola McLelland is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Nottingham. After gaining her PhD in medieval German literature at Sydney, McLelland completed an MPhil in Linguistics at Cambridge, where she discovered the history of linguistics in Vivien Laws lectures, and first began work on the history of German grammars.

1 An introduction to the Ausfhrliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663) and its place in European linguistic thought 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Schottelius in the social and intellectual context of seventeenth-century Europe 1.2.1 Schottelius's life and works 1.2.2 The social, political and intellectual context in Germany 1.2.3 Linguistic thought in Western Europe 1.3 The Ausfhrliche Arbeit 1.4 Schottelius's ideology and aspirations revealed in the paratextual features of the Ausfhrliche Arbeit 1.4.1 Visual features that structure the AA 1.4.2 Accompanying material 1.4.3 Engravings, title pages, and the acclamation of peace 2 Schottelius's concept of language 2.1 Introduction 2.2 What is the' German language? 2.2.1 The' German language as a supraregional written language variety 2.2.2 The object language' of the Ausfhrliche Arbeit: Haubtsprache vs Hochteutsch 2.2.3 The ancestry of German 2.2.4 How and why has German changed over time? 2.3 Language, meaning, and the nature' of the German language 2.3.1 The German SprachNatur linguistic nature' (AA 16, 2: 2) 2.3.2 The problem of language and meaning 2.4 Imagining language: banyans and buildings 2.4.1 The language as a banyan tree 2.4.2 The language as a building 2.5 Evaluating language 2.5.1 Traditional criteria 2.5.2. Ratio, naturalness and linguistic analogy 3 Intersecting discourse traditions in the AA 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Legal discourse 3.3 Practical German grammatography 3.4 The Leiden University network - the roots of Schottelius's linguistic theory in Dutch and Flemish scholarship 3.5 Cultural patriotism 3.5.1 Introduction: cultural and linguistic patriotism 3.5.2 The metaphors of linguistic purism 3.5.3 Cultural-patriotic yardsticks for evaluating the language 3.5.4 Key genres of linguistic patriotism 3.5.5 Language societies, the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (Fruit-bearing Society') and society members' impact on the AA 3.6 International Latinate linguistic reflection 3.6.1 Grammatical theory in the Latin tradition 3.6.2 Analogy 3.6.3 History and origin of language 3.7 Pansemioticism 3.8 Intersecting discourses in the Ausfhrliche Arbeit 3.8.1. Analogy and anomaly - Regel, Grundrichtigkeit and Gewohnheit 3.8.2 The rootword (Stammwort) 4 The genres of the Ausfhrliche Arbeit and their architexts 4.1 Architextuality in the Ausfhrliche Arbeit: inheriting and exploring genres 4.2 The orations (Book I, AA 1-170) 4.3 The dialogue on translating (AA 1216-1268) 4.4 Lists: Vielfaltige Grnde / Exempla und Beweisthmer (manifold grounds, examples and proofs', AA 148: 10: 30) 4.4.1 The list of proper names (AA 1029-1098): die rechten Teutschen wolklingende Nahmen (the proper German, good-sounding names', AA 1031, 1) 4.4.2 The list of proverbs (AA 1099-1147) 4.4.3 The list of writers about Germany, and in or about German (AA 1148-1215) 4.4.4 The list of rootwords (AA 1269-1450) 4.5. The Poetical Treatise (AA 791-997) 4.5.1 Introduction to the poetics 4.5.2 The Verskunst in the context of its predecessors in the genre 4.5.3 Founding poetics on Grundrichtigkeit 4.5.4 Verse types and ars combinatoria 4.6 Verse 4.7 Conclusion 5 The Sprachkunst of the Ausfhrliche Arbeit and its architexts 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Schottelius's grammar in competition with Gueintz (1641) 5.3 The grammar of 1663 and its hypotexts of 1641 and 1651 5.4 Rhetorical lan and constructing the authority of the grammarian 5.5 Schottelius's gr