Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

278 Pages·2022·6.427 MB·

by  Karen Bennett (editor), Angelo Cattaneo (editor)

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Edited by Karen Bennett and Angelo Cattaneo
Language Dynamics in the
Early Modern Period
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 crystallised 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.
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 Transla-
tionality strand.
Angelo Cattaneo is Researcher in History and Geography at CNR-
National Research Council, Rome, and Research Associate of CHAM -
Centre for the Humanities, NOVA University, Lisbon.
Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Translation in the
Early Modern Period
Series Editor: Karen Bennett (Universidade NOVA de
Lisboa, Portugal)
The period 1400 to 1800 is a particularly interesting time in the history
of modern language development, as languages and cultures came into
contact like never before, throwing up new linguistic varieties, challeng-
ing established language philosophies, and stimulating all manner of
translational processes.
This series explores these linguistic phenomena, and the efforts made
to explore and transmit them through language codification and teach-
ing, from a transdisciplinary perspective, bringing together scholars
from cultural history, historical and missionary linguistics, palaeogra-
phy, translation studies, literary studies and philosophy.
Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period
Edited by Karen Bennett and Angelo Cattaneo
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.
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Language Dynamics in the
Early Modern Period
Edited by Karen Bennett and
Angelo Cattaneo
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This volume was prepared and
produced with the collaboration of
João Luís Lisboa (CHAM – Centre
for the Humanities and DH – HIstory
Department, Faculdade de Ciências
Sociais e Humanas, FCSH, Universidade
NOVA de Lisboa, 1069-061 Lisbon).
The project benefitted from the support of
the Centre for the Humanities (CHAM,
NOVA FCSH/UAc) through the strategic
project sponsored by the Portuguese
Foundation for Science and Technology
(UIDB/04666/2020; UIDP/04666/2020).
It also received assistance from the
Centre for English, Translation
and Anglo-Portuguese Studies
(CETAPS, NOVA FCSH).

Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
Foreword xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: The Great Upheaval – Multilingualism
and Lingua Francas in the Early Modern Period 1
KAREN BENNETT
PART I
Multilingualism and Its Discontents 19
1 Multilingual Events in Late Medieval Personal Documentary
Texts from the Winchester Diocese Collection in 1400–1525 21
DELIA SCHIPOR
2 Croatian Biblical Texts in the Early Modern Period: A
Historical-Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Change 40
VUK-TADIJA BARBARIĆ AND IVANA ETEROVIĆ
3 National Myths and Language Status in
Early Modern Wales and Brittany 53
OLIVER CURRIE
4 Bernardo de Aldrete’s Del origen: Rejecting Multilingualism
and Linguistic Essentialism in Early Modern Spain 74
VICENTE LLEDÓ-GUILLEM
5 Multilingualism and Translation in the Early Modern
Low Countries 89
THEO HERMANS
viii Contents
PART II
The Defence of Latin 109
6 Should Latin Be Spoken? The Controversy between Sanctius
Brocensis, Henry Jason and the Irish Jesuits of Salamanca 111
EUSTAQUIO SÁNCHEZ SALOR
7 Pro lingua Latina: Girolamo Lagomarsini’s Oration
in Defence of Latin in Eighteenth-Century Italy 129
JUAN MARÍA GÓMEZ GÓMEZ
8 Petropolis: The Place of Latin in Early Modern Russia 142
BRIAN P. BENNETT
PART III
Pidgins, Jargons, Lingua Francas 167
9 On the Existence of a Mediterranean Lingua Franca
and the Persistence of Language Myths 169
JOSHUA BROWN
10 Immortal Passados: Early Modern England’s Italianate
Fencing Jargon on Page and Stage 190
LAETITIA SANSONETTI
11 Linguistic Expression of Power and Subalternity
in Peixoto’s Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (1741) 207
CHRISTINA MÄRZHÄUSER AND ENRIQUE RODRIGUES-MOURA
12 “Long Time No See”: The Use of Chinese Pidgin
English as a Cultural Identity Symbol by the Canton
Anglophone Trading Community 224
ROGÉRIO MIGUEL PUGA
Epilogue: Developing Historical Linguistic
Awareness in a Multilingual World 242
ANGELO CATTANEO
Contributors 253
Index 257
Figures
1.1 Distribution of texts in the bishops’ registers
of the Winchester Diocese collection (1400–1525)
according to language 23
9.1 Title page of the Dictionnaire de la langue franque
ou petit mauresque printed in Marseille in 1830 181
9.2 The first page of the Dictionnaire de la langue franque
ou petit mauresque (1830) showing correspondences
between French (left column) and the Mediterranean
Lingua Franca (right column) 182
9.3 Taxonomy of Mediterranean Lingua Franca items
listed in the Dictionnaire de la langue franque
ou petit mauresque (1830) 183