John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist
A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description
Series: Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 July 1997
- ISBN 9780198235057
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages524 pages
- Size 243x163x34 mm
- Weight 972 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
When Henry VIII charged John Palsgrave with teaching his sister French, there were no dictionaries or grammars of either French or English. In Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse, a vast work of over 1,000 pages, this brilliant priest and linguist, with a dramatist's eye for contemporary life and an ear for colloquial idiom, provided the first bilingual dictionary and contrastive grammar of the two languages. Professor Stein presents a detailed study of his achievement.
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The year 1530 saw the publication in London of one of the most remarkable books of the Renaissance: Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse. The author of this vast work of over 1,000 pages was John Palsgrave, graduate of Cambridge, Paris, and Oxford, priest and chaplain to Henry VIII, and tutor to the King's sister. His book is the first dictionary of two neighbouring vernaculars, English and French, and simultaneously the first contrastive grammar of the two languages. It reveals him as a pioneering and exceptional linguist with a sharply observant and analytical mind, who goes far beyond the traditional application of Latin grammar-writing to two living languages. The book is also remarkable for the liveliness with which Palsgrave discusses and illustrates the social aspects of language use, dialectal variation, and the vigour of colloquial idiom.
In this uniquely detailed study Stein sets the author and his book in their wider sociohistorical context and discusses Palsgrave's syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analyses, some of which anticipate the findings of modern linguistics by over 400 years.
I expected this book to be informative; it was also intriguing and wonderfully written./ Though much of the book, as readers should expect, is logically a detailed discussion of a specialized topic, Stein goes far beyond that. Her accomplishment is to show how ILesclarcissementI alone can be used as an historical witness to the age, taking Palsgrave's grammatical and lexicographical samples to illustrate contemporary society./ She has set a remarkable standard./ Alan Cottrell, Cottey College, Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol 30, no 1, 1999.
