The prosthetic tongue : printing technology and the rise of the French language /

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"The Prosthetic Tongue charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains-from typography, orthography, and grammar, to politics, pedagogy, and poetics-over the course of two transformative decades in the sixteenth century"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chenoweth, Katie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
1500-1599
French language > History > 16th century.
Printing > France > History > 16th century.
Mass media and language > France > History > 16th century.
Français (Langue) > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Imprimerie > France > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médias et langage > France > Histoire > 16e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
French language
Mass media and language
Printing
Buchdruck
Französisch
Medialisierung
Sprachentwicklung
Volkssprache
France
Frankreich
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue. Originary Prints
  • Chapter 1. The Artificial Tongue: Beginnings
  • Chapter 2. Hand of Brass: From Manuscript to Print
  • Chapter 3. Teleprinting: Geoffroy Tory and the Gallic Hercules
  • Chapter 4. Phonography: Accents, Orthography, Typography
  • Chapter 5. Grammatization: Pedagogies of the Mother Tongue
  • Chapter 6. Prosthetic Sovereignty: François I and the Ear of the People
  • Chapter 7. Survival: Du Bellay and the Life of Language
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix. Technical Treatises on the French Language, 1500-1600
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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