Amsterdam University Press Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity: Northern Europe, 16th-19th Centuries (Languages and Culture in History)

Product Description Multilingualism[-]Francophonie[-]Language teaching[-]Early Modern period[-]Autodidactics[-]History of language contacts[-] From the Inside Flap Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region. This book brings together historians and linguists, who apply their respective analytic tools to offer an interdisciplinary interpretation of the functions of multilingualism in identity-building in the period, and, from that, draw valuable lessons for understanding today's cosmopolitan societies. From the Back Cover Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region. This book brings together historians and linguists, who apply their respective analytic tools to offer an interdisciplinary interpretation of the functions of multilingualism in identity-building in the period, and, from that, draw valuable lessons for understanding today's cosmopolitan societies. About the Author "https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/karene-sanchez" target="_blank">Kar ne Sanchez-Summerer is Assistant Professor of French language and culture and International studiesat Leiden University. Her scholarly interests include the French linguistic and cultural policy in the Levant, the educational impacts of French and British missions in the Middle East, and the relations between language and religion in the Middle Eastern nationalism and identity building processes (mid 19th-mid 20th centuries).|"https://www.uu.nl/staff/MCJKokEscalle/0 " target="_blank">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.|" http://www.fgw.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/staff/staff-f-h/prof-dr-w-t-m-frijhoff/index.aspx" target="_blank"> Willem Frijhoff is emeritus professor of Modern History at VU-University, Amsterdam, and is now professor of Cultural History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. His scholarly work turns around cultural, linguistic and religious identities in early modern France, the Netherlands and North America.