French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Le francais, langue de l'intime a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine
Published on 1. December 2016
216 pages
978-90-485-2998-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used outside of France, in personal and private life.
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"Overall, French as Language of Intimacy offers excellent case studies" - Francois-Ronan Dubois, ContagionsMore details
Series
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
12 halftones; 3 Illustrations, black and white
File size
1,09 MB
ISBN-13
978-90-485-2998-8 (9789048529988)
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Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau | Marie-Christine Kok Escalle
French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Le francais, langue de l'intime a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine
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12/2016
Amsterdam University Press
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Persons
Strien-Chardonneau Madeleine :
Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau is a retired lecturer of French language and culture and an Associate Member of Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines. Her scholarly interests include the accounts of French travelers in the Netherlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the history of the teaching of French in the Netherlands, the francophone Dutch writer Isabelle de Charriere and the personal writings of Netherlanders in French.Kok Escalle Marie-Christine :
Marie-Christine Kok Escalle has been Associate Professor of French Culture and Intercultural Communication at Utrecht University, and after her retirement she continued as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Utrecht University). Her scholarly interests include the cultural role the French language has played in the Netherlands, specially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the development of intercultural competence through foreign language learning and teaching in the past as well as nowadays.
Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau is a retired lecturer of French language and culture and an Associate Member of Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines. Her scholarly interests include the accounts of French travelers in the Netherlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the history of the teaching of French in the Netherlands, the francophone Dutch writer Isabelle de Charriere and the personal writings of Netherlanders in French.Kok Escalle Marie-Christine :
Marie-Christine Kok Escalle has been Associate Professor of French Culture and Intercultural Communication at Utrecht University, and after her retirement she continued as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Utrecht University). Her scholarly interests include the cultural role the French language has played in the Netherlands, specially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the development of intercultural competence through foreign language learning and teaching in the past as well as nowadays.
Content
Introduction Marie-Christine Kok Escalle & Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau 1. Le francais langue seconde, langue de la relation intime, de la relation a soi et a l'autre Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau & Marie-Christine Kok Escalle I. From French as a language of the bilingual Netherlands to the 'language of universality' in a wider Europe (sixteenth - eighteenth centuries) / Du francais langue du bilinguisme aux Pays-Bas a la 'langue de l'universalite' dans l'Europe elargie (seizieme - dix-huitieme siecles) 2. Vertu versus Deugd: Noble women and the French language in the Eastern Netherlands around 1600 Sophie Reinders 3. Correspondance de Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1763-1834) avec sa mere Carolina van Haren (1741-1812): Une formation morale, intellectuelle et sociale par le biais du francais, langue seconde Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau 4. Le francais langue de l'intime dans la correspondance de la comtesse d'Albany (1752-1824) Francesca Piselli 5. Seduction, introspection, experimentation: The epistolary code switching of Giustiniana Wynne Nancy Isenberg II. The use of French as a second language: From continuity to geographical growth (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) / De l'utilisation du francais langue seconde: De la continuite a l'expansion geographique (dix-neuvieme-vingtieme siecles) 6. The French language in the Diaries of Olga Davydova: An example of Russian-French Aristocratic Bilingualism Michele Debrenne 7. Les Souvenirs du jeune Hora Siccama (1854-1858): De l'exercice de style a l'expression de soi Marie-Christine Kok Escalle 8. 'Intimate' Notes from Hell: Gallipoli Diaries by Tevfik Riza Bey (1914-1916) Hanife Gueven & Devrim Cetin Gueven 9. Writing in French. Izzet Melih Devrim (1887-1966) and his Leila (1912) Banu OEztuerk
