Dialogue and German Language Learning in the Renaissance

McLelland, Nicola; Heitsch, Dorothea; Vallée, Jean-François

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“…Thus discussions of language ecology need to take account of the languages that are learned in an environment as well as those that are spoken as first language. There is quite a large literature on the history of language teaching and learning in Britain and the rest of Europe (Hüllen 2006;McLelland 2005). Recently, for example Nicola McLelland and Richard Smith have launched a co-ordinated research project exemplified by the papers they have collected in a recent issue of Language and History (Glück 2014;Besse 2014;Sanchez 2014).…”

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The Development of Attitudes to Foreign Languages as Shown in the English Novel

Shaw¹

2015

From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today

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The Development of Attitudes to Foreign Languages as Shown in the English Novel

Shaw¹

2015

From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today

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“…There is quite a large literature on the history of language teaching and learning in Britain and the rest of Europe (Hüllen 2006;McLelland 2005). Recently, for example Nicola McLelland and Richard Smith have launched a co-ordinated research project exemplified by the papers they have collected in a recent issue of Language and History (Glück 2014;Besse 2014;Sanchez 2014).…”

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From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English language yesterday and today

Sundkvist

Shaw

Erman

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Stockholm English StudiesStockholm English Studies (SES) is a peer-reviewed series of monographs and edited volumes published by Stockholm University Press. SES strives to provide a broad forum for research on English language and literature from all periods. In terms of subjects and methods, the orientation is also wide: language structure, variation, and meaning, both spoken and written language in all genres, as well as literary scholarship in a broad sense. It is the ambition of SES to place equally high demands on the academic quality of the manuscripts it accepts as those applied by refereed international journals and academic publishers of a similar orientation. It is a daunting task to describe Nils-Lennart's multi-faceted contributions to the department: as a distinguished and productive scholar, committed teacher, organizer of symposia, editor, administrator, and mentor to students as well as colleagues. The following text does not presume to do justice to his complete oeuvre and achievement. Titles in the seriesHis scholarly work has above all been concerned with historical linguistics, culminating in a passionate, long-standing commitment to the Middle English twelfth century homily collection Orrmulum, written by the Augustinian canon Orm from Lincolnshire. The ultimate aim of Nils-Lennart's research on Orrmulum is the production of a new text edition, based on a new transcription of the existing manuscripts. Since x From Clerks to Corpora nobody can improve on the creator's own account of the project, the reader of this preface is referred to the excellent website www.orrmulum.net. Over the years Nils-Lennart has delighted the language seminar at our department with glimpses of his ongoing research within the Orrmulum project, characterized by linguistic stringency, wide-ranging use of all technical support, and rich cultural and historical depth.It should not be forgotten, however, that this is just one of many interests. Above all, he is a leading expert on Old English syntax, regularly presenting papers at international conferences. He has contributed greatly to studies on dialect in fiction, with special reference to J.R.R. Tolkien, and he takes a great interest in linguistic as well as literary aspects of figurative language, which is reflected in his active role as co-organizer of our department's annual 'Metaphor Festival' and an editor of the festival's proceedings.He has been a model for us not only as a researcher but also as a teacher and supervisor. His students are always impressed by his conscientiousness and creativity, marked by the production and constant improvement of challenging text material for his courses. He is a painstaking and selfless editor and the co-producer of most handbooks, festschrifts and conference volumes published by our department (with the obvious exception of the present volume).We all know him to be unusually knowledgeable in a number of other fields: he is a fine musician, known to play the bagpipe as well as the flute; he is extremely well read, often quo...

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“…1 There is a long tradition, at least from the fifteenth century, of language learning manuals to help Europeans to learn each others' languages (see, for the Dutch and German contexts, Loonen 1991, Noordegraaf & Vonk 1993, Klippel 1994, McLelland 2004, Glück 2002, 2013. Typically, such language manuals consisted of a grammar (or, in the earliest versions, sample forms or sentences from which patterns could be induced) and a number of model dialogues, usually bilingual, with the two languages presented in parallel columns.…”

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confidence: 99%