108 records matched your query
03678aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 C840265868DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200318010024 008 190123s2019 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198837909 020 $a 0198837909 035 $a (OCoLC)1083131624 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d CBY $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a DA320 $b .G35 2019 082 04 $a 942.05 $2 23 100 1 $a Gallagher, John, $d 1987- $e author. 245 10 $a Learning languages in early modern England / $c John Gallagher. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a vi, 274 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Extracurricular economy: language teachers and language schools in early modern England -- Speaking books: the early modern conversation manual -- To be "languaged": early modern linguistic competences -- "A conversable knowledge": language-learning and educational travel -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 520 $a In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history. 650 0 $a Language and languages $x History $z England $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Language and languages $x History $z England $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a England $x Intellectual life $y 16th century. 651 0 $a England $x Intellectual life $y 17th century. 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a Language and languages $x Study and teaching. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00992220 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a 1500-1699 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317031442.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C840265868DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search