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Learning Languages in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Learning Languages in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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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 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 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.
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