Willem Frijhoff Marie-Christine Ko Karene Sanchez-Summerer
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 offer an interdisciplinary interpretation of the functions of multilingualism in identity-building in the period, and, from that, draws valuable lessons for understanding today's cosmopolitan societies.
Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism--the use of multiple languages in on...
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, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and...
For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and wa...
