Applying the notion of transtextuality (Genette 1982) to early modern German grammars: Lessons from literary theory

McLelland, Nicola

doi:10.1075/sihols.115.18mcl

In:History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam
Edited by Gerda Haßler
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 115] 2011
► pp. 187–200

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Lessons from literary theory

Applying the notion of transtextuality (Genette 1982) to early modern German grammars

Nicola McLelland

Published online: 22 April 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.115.18mcl

This article applies a well-established variant of intertextuality theory, transtextuality (Genette 1982), to Schottelius’s Ausführliche Arbeit der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663), in order to show the potential of such an approach in linguistic historiography.

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