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Of interest to linguists, literary scholars and historians, this interdisciplinary volume examines the shifting relationships that existed between the various tongues vying for status in diverse geographical contexts as Latin, the great lingua franca of the Middle Ages, entered into decline.
List of contents
Introduction: The Great Upheaval - Multilingualism and Lingua Francas in the Early Modern Period
Part 1: Multilingualism and Its Discontents 1. Multilingual Events in Late Medieval Personal Documentary Texts from the Winchester Diocese Collection in 1400-1525 2. Croatian Biblical Texts in the Early Modern Period: A Historical-Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Change 3. National Myths and Language Status in Early Modern Wales and Brittany 4. Bernardo de Aldrete's
Del origen: Rejecting Multilingualism and Linguistic Essentialism in Early Modern Spain 5. Multilingualism and Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries
Part 2: The Defence of Latin 6
. Should Latin Be Spoken?: The Controversy Between Sanctius Brocensis, Henry Jason and the Irish Jesuits of Salamanca 7.
Pro lingua Latina: Girolamo Lagomarsini's Oration in Defence of Latin in Eighteenth-Century Italy 8. Petropolis: The Place of Latin in Early Modern Russia
Part 3: Pidgins, Jargons, Lingua Francas 9. On the Existence of a Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Persistence of Language Myths 10. Immortal Passados: Early Modern England's Italianate Fencing Jargon on Page and Stage 11. Linguistic Expression of Power and Subalternity in Peixoto's
Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (1741) 12. "Long Time No See": The Use of Chinese Pidgin English as a Cultural Identity Symbol by the Canton Anglophone Trading Community. Epilogue: Developing Historical Linguistic Awareness in a Multilingual World
About the author
Karen Bennett is Associate Professor in Translation at NOVA University Lisbon, and a researcher with the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), where she coordinates the Translationality strand.
Angelo Cattaneo is Research Fellow at CNR-National Research Council, Rome and Research Associate of CHAM, Nova University, Lisbon.
Summary
Of interest to linguists, literary scholars and historians, this interdisciplinary volume examines the shifting relationships that existed between the various tongues vying for status in diverse geographical contexts as Latin, the great lingua franca of the Middle Ages, entered into decline.
