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Informationen zum Autor Nicola McLelland is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Nottingham. After gaining her PhD in medieval German literature at Sydney, McLelland completed an MPhil in Linguistics at Cambridge, where she discovered the history of linguistics in Vivien Law's lectures, and first began work on the history of German grammars. Klappentext This monograph offers a comprehensive reassessment of the dominant German grammarian of the 17th century J.G. Schottelius, and examines his legacy both in Germany and Europe.* Offers comprehensive documentation of Schottelius's numerous sources to show the range and limits of scholarly knowledge in 17th-century Germany* Introduces new data that provides insight into whether a grammarian like Schottelius could have any impact on how people actually wrote* Provides an accessible reading of Schottelius's landmark study (with quotations translated into English) that does not assume prior knowledge of the seventeenth-century German context* Traces Schottelius's influence on Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Russian grammar Zusammenfassung Germanist and linguist Nicola McLelland presents an accessible yet scholarly exploration that makes sense of Schottelius's lengthy and unwieldy study by interpreting its elements from grammar to riddles, from verse to dialogue against European discourse traditions that shaped the linguist's views of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 An introduction to the Ausführliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663) and its place in European linguistic thought 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Schottelius in the social and intellectual context of seventeenth-century Europe 1.2.1 Schottelius's life and works 1.2.2 The social, political and intellectual context in Germany 1.2.3 Linguistic thought in Western Europe 1.3 The Ausführliche Arbeit 1.4 Schottelius's ideology and aspirations revealed in the paratextual features of the Ausführliche Arbeit 1.4.1 Visual features that structure the AA 1.4.2 Accompanying material 1.4.3 Engravings, title pages, and the acclamation of peace 2 Schottelius's concept of language 2.1 Introduction 2.2 What is 'the' German language? 2.2.1 'The' German language as a supraregional written language variety 2.2.2 The 'object language' of the Ausführliche Arbeit: Haubtsprache vs Hochteutsch 2.2.3 The ancestry of German 2.2.4 How and why has German changed over time? 2.3 Language, meaning, and the 'nature' of the German language 2.3.1 The German SprachNatur 'linguistic nature' ( AA 16, 2: 2) 2.3.2 The problem of language and meaning 2.4 Imagining language: banyans and buildings 2.4.1 The language as a banyan tree 2.4.2 The language as a building 2.5 Evaluating language 2.5.1 Traditional criteria 2.5.2. Ratio, naturalness and linguistic analogy 3 Intersecting discourse traditions in the AA 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Legal discourse 3.3 Practical German grammatography 3.4 The Leiden University network - the roots of Schottelius's linguistic theory in Dutch and Flemish scholarship 3.5 Cultural patriotism 3.5.1 Introduction: cultural and linguistic patriotism 3.5.2 The metaphors of linguistic purism 3.5.3 Cultural-patriotic yardsticks for evaluating the language 3.5.4 Key genres of linguistic patriotism 3.5.5 Language societies, the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft ('Fruit-bearing Society') and society members' impact on the AA 3.6 International Latinate linguistic reflection 3.6.1 Grammatical theory in the Latin tradition 3.6.2 Analogy 3.6.3 Histor...
