Golden Mean of Languages
Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries
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Word Count
106,250 words, Guess
Page Count
425 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004355217
- ISBN-109004355219
- Library of Congress Control Number2019023649
- OCLC Control Number1101395336
- Better World Books9789004355217
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38051733M
Classifications
- LCCP115.5.N47H23 2019
- LCCP115.5.N47 H23 2019
Description
"In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French has been studied mainly from monolingual perspectives tracing the development towards modern Dutch or French. Van de Haar shows that the discussions on these languages were rooted in multilingual environments, in particular in French schools, Calvinist churches, printing houses, and chambers of rhetoric. The proposals that were formulated there to forge Dutch and French into useful forms were not directed solely at uniformization but were much more diverse"--
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