Download or read book Language Culture and Hegemony in Modern France written by Freeman G. Henry and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this panoramic study, Freeman Henry chronicles the rise to prominence of French language and culture. He meticulously analyzes the protracted government-sponsored efforts to foster and maintain that status and--ultimately--the latter-day challenges to France's national linguistic identity posed by Anglocentric globalization and a multicentric European Union. The internal history of the language is closely intertwined with its external history: phonology, morphology, lexicography, and orthography come alive against a backdrop of political, cultural, and institutional manifestations. A felicitous blend of documentary evidence and critical analysis serves to elucidate crucial stages, events, and concepts: 16th-century exuberance, 17th-century foundations, 18th-century expansionism, Revolutionary ideology. Restoration restructuring and commercialization, the advent of linguistic science, the coming of the media age, encroaching technocracy, and clamors for linguistic parity. Individual chapter focus on the plight of minority linguistic communities such as the blind and the deaf, language monitoring policies and legislation such as the Loi Toubon, as well as the feminization project legitimizing Madame la ministre. --Publisher description.
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Download or read book La critique litt raire written by Roger Fayolle and published by Paris, A. Colin [1964]. This book was released on 1964 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consacrée à l'étude des genres littéraires et brillamment inaugurée en 1962 par le Drame de Michel Lioure, la collection « U » s'enrichit d'un 5e volume, la Critique, par R. Fayolle. Les deux chapitres de la 1TM partie — « l'Age classique », « l'Age moderne » — constituent, selon l'auteur, plus une chronique qu'une histoire de la critique en France. La matière à embrasser était si vaste en effet que la clarté et la densité du tableau n'en sont que plus manifestes. Même si le paragraphe consacré à Montaigne peut paraître un peu bref, même si les références des textes cités n'ont pas ça et là toute la précision nécessaire pour qui voudrait poursuivre l'enquête !, ce sont de minces réserves en regard des mérites de l'ensemble. Le respect scrupuleux de la chronologie ne nuit pas à une structure logique qui met en évidence l'évolution du genre, son accession progressive à l'autonomie, et évite au lecteur, malgré le foisonnement des formes critiques à l'époque moderne, l'aridité d'un catalogue.
Download or read book Biographie Universelle Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe in Theory written by Roberto M. Dainotto and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M. Dainotto deconstructs imperialism not from the so-called periphery but from within Europe itself. He proposes a genealogy of Eurocentrism that accounts for the way modern theories of Europe have marginalized the continent’s own southern region, portraying countries including Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal as irrational, corrupt, and clan-based in comparison to the rational, civic-minded nations of northern Europe. Dainotto argues that beginning with Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws (1748), Europe not only defined itself against an “Oriental” other but also against elements within its own borders: its South. He locates the roots of Eurocentrism in this disavowal; internalizing the other made it possible to understand and explain Europe without reference to anything beyond its boundaries. Dainotto synthesizes a vast array of literary, philosophical, and historical works by authors from different parts of Europe. He scrutinizes theories that came to dominate thinking about the continent, including Montesquieu’s invention of Europe’s north-south divide, Hegel’s “two Europes,” and Madame de Staël’s idea of opposing European literatures: a modern one from the North, and a pre-modern one from the South. At the same time, Dainotto brings to light counter-narratives written from Europe’s margins, such as the Spanish Jesuit Juan Andrés’s suggestion that the origins of modern European culture were eastern rather than northern and the Italian Orientalist Michele Amari’s assertion that the South was the cradle of a social democracy brought to Europe via Islam.
Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
Download or read book De L Universalite de la Langue Francaise written by Antoine Rivarol and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book De l universalit de la langue fran aise written by Antoine de Rivarol and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.
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Download or read book L universalit de la langue fran aise written by Antoine de Rivarol and published by République des Lettres. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Antoine de Rivarol. "Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas français", disait Rivarol. D'où vient le génie particulier de la langue française ? Qu'est-ce qui l'a rendu universelle ? Pourquoi a-t-elle longtemps été la langue des diplomates, des écrivains et des philosophes ? A t-elle mérité ce pouvoir, et doit-elle encore le conserver ? Antoine de Rivarol — grammairien, homme d'esprit et de salons, conservateur caustique et anti-révolutionnaire par respect pour des institutions et des traditions productrices d'excellence langagière — s'est penché sur le sujet. Prononcé en 1783 devant l'Académie des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, son célèbre "Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française" demeure encore, deux siècles et demi plus tard, le plus brillant des essais jamais écrits sur cette Question de la langue française. Outre sa beauté littéraire, il ne peut manquer de passionner tous ceux qui aujourd'hui s'intéressent à la philologie, à la linguistique, ou aux débats contemporains sur l'orthographe, la francophonie, l'enseignement du français, et plus globalement tous les sujets relatifs au langage et à la langue française.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture written by Farzad Sharifian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. This Handbook features thirty-three newly commissioned chapters which cover key areas such as cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics offer insights into the historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice of each topic, and explore the potential future directions of the field show readers how language and culture research can be of practical benefit to applied areas of research and practice, such as intercultural communication and second language teaching and learning. Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.
Download or read book De l universalit de la langue fran aise written by Antoine Rivarol and published by Didier. This book was released on 1930 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The English Language in Canada written by Charles Boberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of English Canadian culture and its treatment in previous research. The review of its history concentrates on the historical roots and patterns of English-speaking settlement that established Canadian English and influenced its character in each region of Canada. The analysis of its principal features compares the vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of Canadian English to standard British and American English. Subsequent chapters examine variation and change in the vocabulary and pronunciation of Canadian English, while a final chapter briefly considers the future of Canadian English.
