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Title Multilingualism, nationhood, and cultural identity : northern Europe 16th-19th centuries / edited by Willem Frijhoff, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle and Karène Sanchez-Summerer ; Bettina Brandt as translator and Mary Robitaille-Ibbett as translator and corrector.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (193 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Languages and culture in history
Languages and culture in history.
Summary "Multilingualism, nationhood, and cultural identity : northern Europe 16th-19th centuries offers systemic and analytical studies of the little-known multilingual practices of northern Europe before the creation of the nation states. In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was home to a society where the practice of multilingualism was embedded in its social dynamics, in the use of dialects and foreign languages with their social functions and group identities. These same realities can be found today in other northern European countries. The notion of a national language did not crystallize before the early modern period and the creation of nation states. However, the ideal of a universal language has been present throughout history. This methodological discussion of the systems of European countries where multiple languages coexisted between the 16th and the 19th centuries provides valuable lessons for the understanding of today societies"--Back cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Approaches of multilingualism in the past. -- Codes, routines and communication: forms and meaning of linguistic plurality in Western European societies in former times / Willem Frijhoff -- Capitalizing multilingual competence: language learning and teaching in the Early Modern period / Pierre Swiggers -- Part II: Multilingualism in Early Modern times: three examples. Plurilingualism in Augsburg and Nuremberg in Early Modern times / Konrad Schröder -- Multilingualism in the Dutch Golden Age: an exploration / Willem Frijhoff -- Literacy, usage, and national prestige: the changing fortunes of Gaelic in Ireland / Joep Leerssen.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Text in English with some translated into English from Dutch.
Subject Multilingualism -- Europe -- History.
Multilingualism.
Europe.
History.
Languages in contact -- Europe -- History.
Languages in contact.
Language and culture -- Europe -- History.
Language and culture.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Frijhoff, Willem, editor.
Kok-Escalle, Marie-Christine, 1948- editor.
Sanchez-Summerer, Karene, editor.
Brandt, Bettina, translator.
Robitaille-Ibbett, Mary, translator.
Added Title Northern Europe 16th-19th centuries
ISBN 9789048530007 (electronic book)
9048530008 (electronic book)
9789462980617
9462980616