John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist: A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description

ISBN-13: 9780198235057 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 528 str.

Gabriele Stein

Opis

When Henry VIII charged John Palsgrave with teaching his sister French, there were no dictionaries or grammars of either French or English. In Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse, a vast work of over 1000 pages, this brilliant priest and linguist, with a dramatist's eye for contemporary life and an ear for colloquial idiom, provided the first bilingual dictionary and contrastive grammar of the two languages. Stein presents a detailed study of his achievement.

Recenzje

John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse 1530 (LLF) is the first description of the French Language that has any claim to completeness. None of the works before it in any vernacular is comparable. Gabriele Stein's meticulous and richly detailed study, a model of scholarship that will not soon be equaled, accords this masterpiece and its author the respect they deserve. Palsgrave's contribution to lexiograpic practice in 16th Century England is in this volume treated with great skill and care. Stein has also presented the finest study to date of Palsgrave's predecessors. Her book is a model of meticulous scholarship, and extremely Valuable contribution to the history of lexiography and to the cultural history of Tudor England.