The first grammatical descriptions of the French language were produced in England, several centuries before the first grammar written in French (but also several centuries after the Norman Conquest). This book describes the status of French in England during the period from the marriage of Emma of Normandy to thelred (1004) to the fixing of a (relatively) standard pedagogical scheme for the teaching of French of English speakers (ca. 1600). During this period French passed from a native language to a second language, became the official language of the legal profession, and ultimately fell back to a position of social accomplishment. At the same time, different pedagogical and descriptive traditions developed to meet these various needs. Here Kibbee traces the interaction of cultural, intellectual, social and technological history with the elaboration of a grammatical tradition. The book includes a bibliography and indexes of names, titles and subjects.
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Chiari, Sophie
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McLelland, Nicola & Richard Smith
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Berec, Laurent
2013. Claude de Sainliens, un huguenot bourbonnais au temps de Shakespeare : un résumé très succinct, quelques ajouts et des pistes de recherche. Documents pour l'histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde :50
Swiggers, Pierre
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Timelli, Maria Colombo & Iamartino
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Ingham, Richard
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2020. How Contact with French Drove Patient‐Lability in English. Transactions of the Philological Society 118:3 ► pp. 447 ff.
Nigel J. Morgan & Rodney M. Thomson
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Haas, Renate
2007. Femina: Female Roots of "Foreign" Language Teaching and the Rise of Mother-Tongue Ideologies. Exemplaria 19:1 ► pp. 139 ff.
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Suso López, Javier & Universidad de Granada
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Thomas, Adèle
2005. A la conquête d’un statut professionnel : les enseignants de français en Angleterre et leurs associations (1880-1914). Documents pour l'histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde :33/34 ► pp. 214 ff.
Minkova, Donka
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2002. Théorie grammaticale et adaptation pédagogique : le traitement des temps du passé dans la Grammaire Françoise / French Grammar de Claude Mauger (1653). Linx :12 ► pp. 86 ff.
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2001. Toward a Comparative New Historicism: Land Tenures and Some Fifteenth-Century Poems. Comparative Literature 53:2 ► pp. 97 ff.
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