Pardon My French? : Dutch-French Language Contact in the Netherlands (1500-1900).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutten, Gijsbert.

Series:

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series ; v.15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Netherlands--History.

Languages in contact.

French language--Influence on Dutch.

French language.

Dutch language--Foreign words and phrases--French.

Dutch language.

Dutch language--Social aspects--Netherlands.

Dutch language--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch-French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. It also offers theoretical and methodological information on how to analyse such an enduring contact situation from a histo.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Frenchification and the need for research

1.2 Analysing historical multilingualism and language contact

1.3 The time, place, and contact setting

1.4 Overview of the book

Chapter 2 Sociohistorical context and contact settings

2.1 Introduction

2.2 European francophonie

2.3 International prestige language

2.4 Migration

2.5 Huguenots, Walloon churches and the Waals college

2.6 French journalists and publishers

2.7 French schools

2.8 Materials and practices for teaching and learning French

2.9 Reading culture and translated French

2.10 Discussion

Chapter 3 Language-ideological conflict sites

3.1 European francophobia

3.2 Language ideologies

3.3 Language-ideological conflict sites

3.3.1 Purism

3.3.2 French Classicism and the War of the Poets

3.3.3 Periodicals and citizenship

3.3.4 The standard language ideology and the nation-state

3.3.5 The refunctionalisation of French

3.4 Discussion

Chapter 4 Language choice in the public domain and in ego-documents

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The public domain

4.2.1 Newspapers

4.2.2 Pamphlets

4.3 Ego-documents

4.4 Discussion

Chapter 5 Language choice in private family correspondence

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Data and methodology

5.2.1 Collecting archival data

5.2.2 Compiling databases

5.2.3 Categorising language choice

5.2.4 Selecting letter data

5.2.5 Representing language choice

5.2.6 Final dataset

5.3 Quantitative analysis and results

5.3.1 Language choice across time

5.3.2 Language choice across space

5.3.3 Language choice across gender

5.3.4 Language choice across familial relationships

5.4 Discussion

Chapter 6 Language choice in business correspondence

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Data and methodology.

6.3 Selected families

6.4 Results

6.4.1 Language choice across families

6.4.2 Language choice within families

De la Court family

Calkoen family

Van de Mortel family

De Beaufort family

6.5 Discussion

Chapter 7 Language choice and language shift in Leiden

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Historical background

7.2.1 The city of Leiden

7.2.2 The Luzac family

7.3 Data and methodology

7.4 Macro-level analysis

7.4.1 Method

7.4.2 Language choice across time

7.4.3 Language choice across domains

7.4.4 Preliminary conclusion

7.5 Micro-level analysis

7.5.1 Method

7.5.2 Jean Luzac (1746-1807)

7.5.3 Lodewijk Caspar Luzac (1785-1861)

7.5.4 Preliminary conclusion

7.6 Discussion

Chapter 8 The Language of Leiden Corpus

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The choice for Leiden

8.3 Compiling the LOL Corpus

8.3.1 Time

8.3.2 Social domain

8.3.3 Selecting textual materials

8.3.4 Administrative v. non-administrative texts

8.3.5 Transcription principles

8.3.6 Structure of the LOL Corpus

Chapter 9 Loan suffixes

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Loan morphology in Dutch

9.3 Method

9.4 Loan suffixes across time

9.5 Loan suffixes across social domain

9.6 Social domains and time

9.7 Discussion

Chapter 10 Loanwords

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Analysing borrowing and loanwords

10.3 Method

10.4 Loanwords across time

10.5 Moment of borrowing v. community life of loanwords

10.6 Loanwords across social domains

10.7 Social domains and time

10.8 Loanwords as lexical variables

10.9 Discussion

Chapter 11 Present participle constructions

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Present participles and borrowing scales

11.3 Method

11.4 Participial constructions across time

11.5 Participial constructions across social domains

11.6 Social domains and time.

11.7 Auxiliary verbs in participial constructions

11.8 Discussion

Chapter 12 Relative pronouns

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Relative pronouns in the history of Dutch

12.3 Method

12.4 Relative pronouns across time

12.5 Relative pronouns across social domains

12.6 Social domains and time

12.7 Functions of relative clauses

12.8 Discussion

Chapter 13 Synthesis and research directions for the study of historical multilingualism

13.1 Synthesis

Language ideology

Language choice and language shift

Established contact-induced phenomena

Claimed contact-induced changes

Disentangling French and Latin

Interaction of ideology, choice, shift, and contact-induced change

So, was there frenchification?

13.2 Analysing historical multilingualism

Analysing historical language ideologies

Comparing types of multilingualism

Analysing language choice and shift

Analysing contact-induced changes

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-272-4393-X

9789027243935

OCLC:

1586566762