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Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory
Melodramas of the Foreign Tongue
Av Tingting Hui
Häftad, 2026
811 kr
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In our globalized world, a unique type of intercultural encounter has emerged: that between the speaking body and the foreign language. From Vladimir Nabokov and Maxine Hong Kingston to Yoko Tawada, writers have vividly captured the tensions and possibilities of this encounter—where tongues are …
French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Le français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine
Av Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, …
Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe
Education, Sociability, and Governance
Av Vladislav Rjéoutski, Willem Frijhoff
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early …
Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts
L'apprentissage et l'enseignement des langues en contextes missionnaire et colonial
Av Dan Savatovsky, Mariangela Albano m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and educational aspects of missionary and colonial enterprises, taking into account all continents and with an extended diachronic perspective (15th–20th centuries). Strictly speaking, this “linguistics” is contemporary to the colonial era, so …
Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830)
Av Rick Honings, Ton van Kalmthout m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity. These early scholars promoted the Dutch …
Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers
Modern Greeks in the European Press (1850-1900)
Av Georgia Gotsi, Despina Provata
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned? This volume focuses on the reception of medieval and modern Greece in the European press, rigorously analysing journals and newspapers published in England, …
Linguistic and Cultural Foreign Policies of European States
18th-20th Centuries
Av Karène Sanchez Summerer, Willem Frijhoff
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to filling that gap, …
Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity
Northern Europe, 16th-19th Centuries
Av Willem Frijhoff, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region. This book brings together historians and linguists, who apply their respective analytic tools to …
Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching
20th-century Historical Perspectives
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This book brings together studies from Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, and the UK which explore links between policy and practice in language teaching in the twentieth century. The 14 contributions set out to expand the remit of ‘grounded history’ within the field …
Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and …
French Language in Russia
A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History
Av Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
811 kr
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With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau , The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language.
History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching
Av Simon Coffey
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Taking a broadly chronological approach, this volume of original essays traces the origins of the concept of ‘grammar’. In doing so, it charts the social, moral and cultural factors that have shaped the development of grammar from Antiquity, via the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modern Europe, to …
Two Centuries of English Language Teaching and Learning in Spain
1769-1970
Av Alberto Lombardero Caparrós
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This book provides an exhaustive historical account of how the English language was taught and learnt in Spain over two centuries. Since its origins back in 1769 with the publication of San Joaquín de Pedro's 'Gramática inglesa' until 1970, a key year in European and World affairs. A period of time …
Languages of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World
Europe and the USA
Av Gleb Kazakov, Vladislav Rjéoutski
Inbunden, 2026
2585 kr
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This book outlines major trends in language use by early modern diplomats, mainly in the European context, through a series of case studies and overviews of regional diplomatic traditions.During the early modern period, linguistic practices in European diplomacy changed drastically, as the decline …
Women in the History of Language Learning and Teaching
Hidden Pioneers of Practice from Europe and Beyond (1400-2000)
Av Sabine Doff, Giovanni Iamartino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2132 kr
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This volume addresses the historical neglect of women's contributions to language learning and teaching. While the historiography of language education has often focused on male-dominated frameworks, the case studies in this book highlight female pioneers in language education from the Middle Ages …
Colonial Vocabularies
Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970
Av Sarah Irving, Karène Sanchez Summerer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2195 kr
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A discussion of Arabic teaching across a wide geographical and temporal range - Engaging case studies which add intriguing detail and colour to historical study - Siting of language study within highly topical colonial and postcolonial contexts and debates.
Rethinking the Mother Tongue in Contemporary Italy
From Gramsci to Postcolonial Literature
Inbunden, 2026
2749 kr
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Italy has always been a multilingual country, a place of many mother tongues. United as a state in 1861, the government attempted to “make Italians” – i.e., to create cohesion amongst its very different communities – by implementing one national language. Antonio Gramsci, who was trained as a …
French Language and the Making of Modern Chinese Intellectuals
New Selves, New Worlds
Inbunden, 2026
2549 kr
Kommande
This book offers the first interdisciplinary study of how different generations of Chinese individuals learned and used the French language as an intrinsic part of their engagement with new worlds—both tangible and envisioned—and with their emerging selves.Drawing from Wittgenstein’s understanding …
Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory
Melodramas of the Foreign Tongue
Av Tingting Hui
Inbunden, 2025
2335 kr
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Through an evocative blend of theoretical rigor and literary sensibility, Tingting Hui spotlights the "melodrama" of accented speech-a performance that exposes the bodily nature of language, bridging the erotic and the vulnerable, the audible and the visual.
Translation and Polyglossia in Early Modern English Literature
The Rhetoric of Teacherly Texts
Inbunden, 2026
2710 kr
Kommande
Translation and Polyglossia in Early Modern English Literature: The Rhetoric of Teacherly Texts studies the role of Romance languages in shaping early modern English literature from about 1550 to about 1650, analyzing interconnected processes of translation and multilingualism that relied on a …
Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830)
Av Rick Honings, Ton van Kalmthout m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2549 kr
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In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity. These early scholars promoted the Dutch …
French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Le français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine
Av Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle
Inbunden, 2016
2132 kr
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For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used outside of France, in personal and private life.
Linguistic and Cultural Foreign Policies of European States
18th-20th Centuries
Av Karène Sanchez Summerer, Willem Frijhoff
Inbunden, 2016
2132 kr
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This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to distinguishing and analysing several different types of linguistic and foreign cultural policie pursued by European monarchies and states outside their own borders.
Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity
Northern Europe, 16th-19th Centuries
Av Willem Frijhoff, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2195 kr
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This book brings together historians and linguists, who apply their respective analytic tools to offer an interdisciplinary interpretation of the functions of multilingualism in identity-building in 16th-19th century Europe.
French Language in Russia
A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History
Av Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1026 kr
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This book provides a wide-ranging account of the social, political, cultural, and literary functions of the French language in Russia from c. 1700 to 1917.
Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe
Education, Sociability, and Governance
Av Vladislav Rjéoutski, Willem Frijhoff
Inbunden, 2018
2195 kr
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This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West.
Francophonie en Orient
Aux croisements France-Asie (1840-1940)
Inbunden, 2017
1124 kr
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Transculture, Asian Francophone heritage
Two Centuries of English Language Teaching and Learning in Spain
1769-1970
Av Alberto Lombardero Caparrós
Inbunden, 2019
2195 kr
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This book provides an exhaustive historical account of how the English language was taught and learnt in Spain over two centuries.
Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers
Modern Greeks in the European Press (1850-1900)
Av Georgia Gotsi, Despina Provata
Inbunden, 2021
2195 kr
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What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned? This volume focuses on the reception of medieval and modern Greece in the European press, rigorously analysing journals and newspapers published in England, …
Francophonie and the Orient
French-Asian Transcultural Crossings (1840-1940)
Inbunden, 2018
1602 kr
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Based on transnational France-Asia approaches, this book studies Asian cultures once steeped in French civilisation but free of a colonial mode in order to highlight the transliterary examples of cultural transfer. This book is a pioneering study of the Francophone phenomenon within the context of …
