Dr. Christopher Joby is Associate Professor of Dutch, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. He is the author of 'The Multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)' (AUP, 2014), and 'The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702)' (Brill, 2015). Professor, Department of Dutch, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. He has published many articles on the work of Huygens and Vondel, and on Dutch language and literature in early modern Britain.
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'If you love languages, Joby's book is a pleasure to read: a very careful reconstruction of the multilingualism of a special individual in the seventeenth century.' -Marc van Ostendorp, Meertens Institute, Leiden University
Innehållsförteckning
1: 'Multilingualism: An Introduction' 2: 'Huygens' Language Acquisition' 3: 'The "multidimensionality" of Huygens' Multilingualism' 4: 'Huygens' multilingualism in music, science and architecture' 5: 'Huygens and Translation' 6: 'Code Switching in Huygens' work' 7: 'The multilingualism of Huygens' children' Epilogue
