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Language and the Grand Tour - Linguistic Experiences of Travelling in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Language and the Grand Tour - Linguistic Experiences of Travelling in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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The Grand Tour was the classical continental trip to France and
Italy, undertaken by young aristocratic men in early modern Europe,
ostensibly for educational purposes. Using amusing stories and
vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, Arturo Tosi
charts the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of
European languages. The travellers' writings provide a valuable
source of information about language contact, and illuminate how
socialisation with the locals led, on the one hand, to conscious
borrowings from prestigious foreign peers and, on the other, to
linguistic disorientation when confronted with lower-class speech
and rural vernaculars. The first of its kind to approach the Grand
Tour from a linguistic perspective, this book is a timely addition
to this burgeoning area of study, presenting a unique case study of
population movement, language change and education in early modern
Europe.
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