External linguistic politics and policies in the German-speaking countries of Central Europe in early modern times and in the nineteenth century : with some references to the present age / Konrad Schroder -- German global soft power, 1700-1920 / Nicola McLelland -- French as a polemical language for Russian writers in the age of Nicholas I / Derek Offord -- The external cultural and linguistic policy of the Italian government in the Mediterranean region and the issue of the National Association for Aid to Missionaries (1886-1905) / Paolo Pieraccini -- Expansion du francʹais et des manieres francʹaises en Europe aux dix-septieme et dix-huitieme siecles : resultat d'une politique royale exterieure ou effet d'un certain prestige? / Henri Besse -- Literary translation as a foreign language policy tool : the case of Russia, mid-eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries / Vladislav Rjeoutski -- L'usage diplomatique de la langue francʹaise, instrument de la puissance? / Lucien Bely -- The political implications of the idea of genie de la langue in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Gilles Siouffi.
Summary:
The policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to filling that gap, distinguishing and analyzing several different types of linguistic and foreign cultural policies. Such policies, the contributors show, tended not to be proclaimed officially, but they nonetheless had lasting effects on both language and culture in Europe and beyond.
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