French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age (eBook)

Le francais, langue de l'intime a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine

Marie-Christine Kok Escalle, Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
238 Seiten
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
9789048529988 (ISBN)

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Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau is a retired lecturer of French language and culture and an associate member of the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines. Marie-Christine Kok Escalle is a retired associate professor of French culture and intercultural communication at Utrecht University and senior researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University.

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For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and linguists and covers a wide range of geographical areas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9789048529988 / 9789048529988