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| Other authors / contributors: | Bennett, Karen, editor.
Cattaneo, Angelo, editor.
"A host of tongues...": Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Translation in the Early Modern Period (Conference) (2018 : Lisbon, Portugal)
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| ISBN: | 9781000574616
100057461X
9781003092445
1003092446
9781000574609
1000574601
9780367552145
9780367552152
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2022).
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| Summary: | "In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would later become, and multilingualism was rife. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, languages were coming into contact with an intensity that they had never had before, influencing each other and throwing up all manner of hybrids and pidgins as peoples tried to communicate using the semiotic resources they had available. Of interest to linguists, literary scholars and historians, amongst others, this interdisciplinary volume explores the linguistic dynamics operating in Europe and beyond in the crucial centuries between 1400 and 1800. Assuming a state of individual, societal and functional multilingualism, when codeswitching was the norm, and languages themselves were fluid, unbounded and porous, it explores the shifting relationships that existed between various tongues in different geographical contexts, as well as some of the myths and theories that arose to make sense of them"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Language dynamics in the early modern period New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9780367552145
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| Standard no.: | 10.4324/9781003092445
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