In:Images of Language: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800
William Jervis Jones
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 89] 1999
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Published online: 15 April 1999
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Table of contents
Introductionvii
1. “König Deutsch zu Abrahams Zeiten”: Perceptions of the place of German in the family of languages from Aventinus to Zedler1
2. “Mit rainem teutschen lispeln”: Attitudes to language among earlier German purists25
3. “Die Söhne wolten nicht der eignen Mutter schonen”: Lexis and metaphor in the formation of German puristic discourse59
4. “Mit den Feinden Teutsch reden”: Abraham Kolbinger of Augsburg and the purity of German military language85
5. “Französisch kauder-walsch macht unsre sprache falsch”: Diagnoses of Gallomania111
6. “Spuma linguarum”: On the status of English in German-speaking countries before 1700171
Conclusion215
References217
Index of personal names261
Index of subjects272
Index of words289
