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Author | : Wendy Ayres-Bennett |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : French language |
ISBN | : 9780415100007 |
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This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves. It combines texts and extracts with a readable and detailed commentary allowing the language to be viewed both synchronically and diachronically. Core texts range from the ninth century to the present day highlight central features of the language, whilst a range of shorter texts illustrate particular points. The inclusion of non-literary, as well as literary texts serves to illustrate some of the many varieties of French whether in legal, scientific, epistolatory, administrative or liturgical or in more popular domains, including attempts to represent spoken usage. This is essential reading for the undergraduate student of French.
Author | : Wendy Ayres-Bennett |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2005-06-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134856636 |
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This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves. It combines texts and extracts with a readable and detailed commentary allowing the language to be viewed both synchronically and diachronically. Core texts range from the ninth century to the present day highlight central features of the language, whilst a range of shorter texts illustrate particular points. The inclusion of non-literary, as well as literary texts serves to illustrate some of the many varieties of French whether in legal, scientific, epistolatory, administrative or liturgical or in more popular domains, including attempts to represent spoken usage. This is essential reading for the undergraduate student of French.
Author | : Peter Rickard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2003-10-04 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134838786 |
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Incorporating a description of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, and the earliest recorded forms of French, the development of the French language through the later Middle Ages and Renaissance period is documented, to show the extent of standardization of form in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Author | : Thomas Gloning |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134671903 |
Download A History of the German Language Through Texts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written in a lively and accessible style, the book looks at the history of German through a wide range of texts, from medical, legal and scientific writing to literature, everyday newspapers and adverts.
Author | : Wendy Ayres-Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : French language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Katie Chenoweth |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2019-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812251490 |
Download The Prosthetic Tongue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that the invention of printing constitutes an event in the history of language that has profoundly shaped modernity, and yet the exact nature of this transformation—the mechanics of the event—has remained curiously unexamined. In The Prosthetic Tongue, Katie Chenoweth explores the relationship between printing and the vernacular as it took shape in sixteenth-century France and charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains, from typography, orthography, and grammar to politics, pedagogy, and poetics. Under François I, the king known in his own time as the "Father of Letters," both printing and vernacular language emerged as major cultural and political forces. Beginning in 1529, French underwent a remarkable transformation, as printers and writers began to reimagine their mother tongue as mechanically reproducible. The first accent marks appeared in French texts, the first French grammar books and dictionaries were published, phonetic spelling reforms were debated, modern Roman typefaces replaced gothic scripts, and French was codified as a legal idiom. This was, Chenoweth argues, a veritable "new media" moment, in which the print medium served as the underlying material apparatus and conceptual framework for a revolutionary reinvention of the vernacular. Rather than tell the story of the origin of the modern French language, however, she seeks to destabilize this very notion of "origin" by situating the cultural formation of French in a scene of media technology and reproducibility. No less than the paper book issuing from sixteenth-century printing presses, the modern French language is a product of the age of mechanical reproduction.
Author | : George Saintsbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 978 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : |
Download A Short History of French Literature (from the Earliest Texts to the Close of the Nineteenth Century) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Catherine Mary Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Cycles (Literature) |
ISBN | : 9780813066462 |
Download An Old French Trilogy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume offers a broad and rich view of the tradition of Old French epic poetry, or chansons de geste, by providing an updated English translation of three central poems from the twelfth-century Guillaume d'Orange cycle.
Author | : George Saintsbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Karen Kelton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781937963200 |
Download Français Interactif Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.