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Learning Languages in Early Modern England de John Gallagher

Learning Languages in Early Modern England

Autor John Gallagher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iul 2022

Această monografie de istorie culturală semnată de John Gallagher reprezintă primul studiu major dedicat procesului de achiziție a limbilor străine în Anglia epocii moderne timpurii. Într-o perioadă în care limba engleză era practic necunoscută dincolo de Dover, mobilitatea comercială și diplomatică a impus o transformare radicală a vorbitorilor nativi în cursanți de limbi continentale. Notăm cu interes modul în care autorul reconstruiește practicile de comunicare multilingvă, folosind surse diverse, de la manuale de conversație tipărite până la manuscrise intime, precum jurnalele și corespondența vremii.

Putem afirma că lucrarea propune o reevaluare a 'revoluției educaționale' engleze, demonstrând că stăpânirea unei limbi străine nu era doar un exercițiu intelectual, ci o necesitate pragmatică pentru supraviețuirea într-o lume interconectată. Structura cărții ghidează cititorul prin metodologiile de lectură și oralitate ale secolelor XVI-XVIII, evidențiind modul în care interacțiunea cu străinul a modelat identitatea britanică la ea acasă. Din punct de vedere stilistic, textul menține un echilibru între rigoarea academică și analiza narativă a experiențelor umane de învățare.

Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum 'Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?' de Jason Lawrence, dar cu o abordare mai interdisciplinară, care extinde cadrul de cercetare dincolo de influențele literare și poetice către o istorie socială a limbajului aplicat în călătorii și comerț. De asemenea, se distinge de The Italian Encounter with Tudor England prin faptul că nu se limitează la influența unei singure comunități de imigranți, ci analizează fenomenul învățării limbilor ca pe un efort sistematic al englezilor de a se deschide către întreg continentul european.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192865151
ISBN-10: 0192865153
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru istoricii limbajului, cercetătorii perioadei Tudor și Stuart, dar și pentru oricine este interesat de originile educației moderne. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care barierele lingvistice au fost depășite înaintea globalizării actuale. Este o recomandare solidă pentru cei care doresc să descopere cum manualele de acum 400 de ani au pus bazele comunicării internaționale engleze.

Despre autor

John Gallagher este un cercetător axat pe istoria modernă timpurie, aducând în studiile sale o perspectivă proaspătă asupra interacțiunilor culturale și lingvistice. Deși bibliografia sa include și analize urbane contemporane, precum Reimagining Detroit, în cadrul prezentei lucrări publicate de OUP Oxford, el își demonstrează expertiza în arhivele secolelor XVI-XVIII. Abordarea sa este recunoscută pentru modul în care reușește să integreze istoria socială cu lingvistica, oferind o voce nouă în studiile britanice contemporane.

Descriere

In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'.Learning Languages in Early Modern England Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle,Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel.Learning Languages in Early Modern England offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.

Recenzii

[Learning Languages] exemplifies the benefit of combining cutting-edge historical research with historical sociolinguistics ... [Gallagher] handles a wealth of multilingual manuscripts — language exercises, diaries, notebooks, and correspondence — that connect three layers: texts, oral speech and pronunciation, as well as social communication. ... This work comprehensively combines ideas and approaches from the histories of education, books, and travel with social and cultural history. ... From extracurricular education to conversation manuals and travellers' accounts, it illuminates the dynamics of language learning and multilingualism in early modern England and its encounters with continental Europe.
Learning Languages in Early Modern England offers a fresh account both of the desire for foreign languages that animated early modern English culture and of some of the means pursued by the English in order to acquire them. It will be indispensable for readers interested in the histories of English foreign relations and travel as well as for those whose research treats the history of languages instruction more narrowly.
Gallagher... assembles a rich body of documentary evidence to illustrate the methods and social importance of instruction in vernacular languages. ... Gallagher's main point is simple but powerful: 'early modern England was multilingual.' ...[He has] given us a picture of an early modern England made louder and more boisterous by print, not silenced by it. Printed books made foreign languages more accessible, even to those without a private teacher or the funds to travel. Overseas trade and global politics resulted in greater interest in foreign tongues, with books on Arabic, Malay and Narragansett as well as the Continental standards. Immigrants take their place here as teachers, authors of foreign-language manuals, and students of English in their own right. This is a story of England finding its many voices.
The methodological tools and historical contexts... will be of much use to both historians and literary scholars... Gallagher's concepts are clearly defined and arguments well developed... Learning Languages in Early Modern England is a significant contribution to scholarly conversations about historical multilingualism, education, language acquisition, and intellectual economies and networks; it will be found of much interest and importance not just to the student of English cultural history, but to anyone with an interest in textual production and/or social interactions in the early modern period, who will be inspired by its arguments about the role of languages and learning in people's lived experience in the period, and aided by its clarity of thought and organization.
Gallagher is meticulous in his work, and bases his narrative on early modern primary records. ...The sheer volume of Gallagher's sources is convincing, and the society that he describes is one where polyglot men and women of different classes delight in 'speaking tongues'. ...Gallagher also explains why learning another language was important in early modern England, and this may offer a different perspective to the one we have on that society.
How English men and women of the late 15th to the early 18th century went about doing so is the subject of John Gallagher's fascinating new book, a welcome attempt to show that the history of language encompasses much more than just the history of words.

Notă biografică

John Gallagher was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After holding a Research Fellowship in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, he became Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds in 2017. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, The Italianist, Huntington Library Quarterly, and others. He is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and a frequent contributor to radio and print media.