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Die Suche nach der vollkommenen Sprache
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ISBN: 3406378889 9783406378881 Year: 1994 Publisher: München : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (DTV),

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The Languages and Linguistics of Europe
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ISBN: 1283398656 9786613398659 3110220261 9783110220261 9781283398657 9783110220254 3110220253 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Open publication› The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduate readership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.

Language and cultural change: aspects of the study and use of language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9042917571 9789042917576 Year: 2006 Volume: 24 Publisher: Leuven Peeters


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Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy
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ISBN: 9781107001138 9780511734762 9781107693654 1107001137 9780511992766 0511992769 1107220114 0511993994 1282967118 9786612967115 0511991770 0511990790 0511989008 051173476X 051198720X 1107693659 Year: 2011 Volume: 83 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in religious experience, the role of scribal mediation, the influence of the Italian reception of French literature on that literature, and how translating into the vernacular became a project of nation-building only after its virtual demise during the Humanist period. Vernacular translation was a phenomenon with which all authors in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - from Brunetto Latini to Giovanni Boccaccio - had to contend"--

Sociocultural competence in language learning and teaching : studies towards a Common European framework of reference for language learning and teaching
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ISBN: 9287132615 9789287132611 Year: 1997 Publisher: Strasbourg Council of Europe


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Celtic from the West : alternative perspectives from archaeology, genetics, language and literature
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ISBN: 9781842174104 184217410X 9781842174753 1842174754 Year: 2012 Volume: 15 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow,

The sociocultural and intercultural dimension of language learning and teaching
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ISBN: 9287132569 9789287132567 Year: 1997 Publisher: Strasbourg : Council of Europe,


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Hiéroglossie II : Les textes fondateurs Japon, Chine, Europe
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ISBN: 9782913217423 2913217427 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris Collège de France. Institut des hautes études japonaises

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Le colloque « Hiéroglossie II : Les textes fondateurs » qui s’est tenu au Collège de France les 8 et 9 juin 2016 se proposait de poursuivre l’examen du phénomène de hiérarchisation des langues conçue comme l’un des facteurs dynamiques de leur histoire, puisque toute hiérarchisation a pour destin d’être remise en question. L’établissement d’un texte sacré est sans doute un élément primordial dans la constitution d’un réseau hiéroglossique, mais il existe des textes qui, sans s’être vu conférer la dignité de sacrés, peuvent cependant être considérés comme le point de départ d’une tradition langagière répétant, dans un autre ordre, un processus analogue à ce qui s’est passé dans le domaine religieux avant de s’étendre à l’ensemble d’une culture.Ici encore, la plus grande liberté a été laissée aux participants pour proposer leur propre vision d’un texte fondateur. Si certains choix s’admettent naturellement, d’autres sont plus inattendus, mais toutes les contributions montrent l’importance décisive d’un texte référentiel comme médiation d’un destin langagier. Le Kojiki est le garant a posteriori de l’indépendance de la langue japonaise, le Beowulf anglo-saxon est remis à l’honneur grâce au succès du Seigneur des anneaux, qui s’est lui-même inspiré du Kalevala finnois, jusque dans l’élaboration de langues imaginaires.Chacune des treize contributions propose ainsi une manière d’aborder les grands et moins grands textes dans une perspective dynamique d'ouverture sur l’histoire des langues.

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