{"product_id":"j-g-schotteliuss-ausfuhrliche-arbeit-von-der-teutschen-haubtsprache-1663-and-its-place-in-early-modern-european-vernacular-language-study-isbn-9781444339611","title":"J.G. Schottelius's Ausführliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663) and its Place in Early Modern European Vernacular Language Study","description":"This monograph offers a comprehensive reassessment of the dominant German grammarian of the 17th century J.G. Schottelius, and examines his legacy both in Germany and Europe.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eOffers comprehensive documentation of Schottelius’s numerous sources to show the range and limits of scholarly knowledge in 17th-century Germany\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eIntroduces new data that provides insight into whether a grammarian like Schottelius could have any impact on how people actually wrote\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eProvides an accessible reading of Schottelius’s landmark study (with quotations translated into English) that does not assume prior knowledge of the seventeenth-century German context\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eTraces Schottelius’s influence on Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Russian grammar\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cb\u003e1 An introduction to the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache\u003c\/i\u003e (1663) and its place in European linguistic thought\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e 1.1 Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1.2 Schottelius in the social and intellectual context of seventeenth-century Europe \u003cbr\u003e      1.2.1 Schottelius's life and works \u003cbr\u003e      1.2.2 The social, political and intellectual context in Germany \u003cbr\u003e      1.2.3 Linguistic thought in Western Europe \u003cbr\u003e 1.3 The \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e 1.4 Schottelius's ideology and aspirations revealed in the paratextual features of the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e      1.4.1 Visual features that structure the \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      1.4.2 Accompanying material \u003cbr\u003e      1.4.3 Engravings, title pages, and the acclamation of peace \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 Schottelius's concept of language\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e 2.1 Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 2.2 What is ‘the' German language? \u003cbr\u003e      2.2.1 ‘The' German language as a supraregional written language variety \u003cbr\u003e      2.2.2 The ‘object language' of the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit: Haubtsprache vs Hochteutsch\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e      2.2.3 The ancestry of German \u003cbr\u003e      2.2.4 How and why has German changed over time? \u003cbr\u003e 2.3 Language, meaning, and the ‘nature' of the German language \u003cbr\u003e      2.3.1 The German \u003ci\u003eSprachNatur\u003c\/i\u003e ‘linguistic nature' (\u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e 16, 2: 2) \u003cbr\u003e      2.3.2 The problem of language and meaning \u003cbr\u003e 2.4 Imagining language: banyans and buildings \u003cbr\u003e      2.4.1 The language as a banyan tree \u003cbr\u003e      2.4.2 The language as a building \u003cbr\u003e 2.5 Evaluating language \u003cbr\u003e      2.5.1 Traditional criteria \u003cbr\u003e      2.5.2. Ratio, naturalness and linguistic analogy \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 Intersecting discourse traditions in the \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e 3.1 Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 3.2 Legal discourse \u003cbr\u003e 3.3 Practical German grammatography \u003cbr\u003e 3.4 The Leiden University network - the roots of Schottelius's linguistic theory in Dutch and Flemish scholarship \u003cbr\u003e 3.5 Cultural patriotism \u003cbr\u003e      3.5.1 Introduction: cultural and linguistic patriotism \u003cbr\u003e      3.5.2 The metaphors of linguistic purism \u003cbr\u003e      3.5.3 Cultural-patriotic yardsticks for evaluating the language \u003cbr\u003e      3.5.4 Key genres of linguistic patriotism \u003cbr\u003e      3.5.5 Language societies, the \u003ci\u003eFruchtbringende Gesellschaft\u003c\/i\u003e (‘Fruit-bearing Society') and society\u003cbr\u003e      members' impact on the \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3.6 International Latinate linguistic reflection \u003cbr\u003e      3.6.1 Grammatical theory in the Latin tradition \u003cbr\u003e      3.6.2 Analogy \u003cbr\u003e      3.6.3 History and origin of language \u003cbr\u003e 3.7 Pansemioticism \u003cbr\u003e 3.8 Intersecting discourses in the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      3.8.1. Analogy and anomaly - \u003ci\u003eRegel, Grundrichtigkeit and Gewohnheit\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e      3.8.2 The rootword (\u003ci\u003eStammwort\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 The genres of the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003c\/i\u003e and their architexts\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e 4.1 Architextuality in the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003c\/i\u003e: inheriting and exploring genres \u003cbr\u003e 4.2 The orations (Book I, \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e 1-170) \u003cbr\u003e 4.3 The dialogue on translating (\u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e 1216-1268) \u003cbr\u003e 4.4 Lists: \u003ci\u003eVielfaltige Gründe \/ Exempla und\u003c\/i\u003e Beweistühmer (‘manifold grounds, examples and proofs', AA 148: 10: 30) \u003cbr\u003e      4.4.1 The list of proper names (AA 1029-1098): die rechten Teutschen wolklingende Nahmen (‘the\u003cbr\u003e      proper German, good-sounding names', AA 1031, §1) \u003cbr\u003e      4.4.2 The list of proverbs (AA 1099-1147) \u003cbr\u003e      4.4.3 The list of writers about Germany, and in or about German (AA 1148-1215) \u003cbr\u003e      4.4.4 The list of rootwords (AA 1269-1450) \u003cbr\u003e 4.5. The Poetical Treatise (AA 791-997) \u003cbr\u003e      4.5.1 Introduction to the poetics \u003cbr\u003e      4.5.2 The \u003ci\u003eVerskunst\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of its predecessors in the genre \u003cbr\u003e      4.5.3 Founding poetics on \u003ci\u003eGrundrichtigkeit\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      4.5.4 Verse types and \u003ci\u003ears combinatoria\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4.6 Verse \u003cbr\u003e 4.7 Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 The \u003ci\u003eSprachkunst\u003c\/i\u003e of the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003c\/i\u003e and its architexts\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e 5.1 Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 5.2 Schottelius's grammar in competition with Gueintz (1641) \u003cbr\u003e 5.3 The grammar of 1663 and its hypotexts of 1641 and 1651 \u003cbr\u003e 5.4 Rhetorical élan and constructing the authority of the grammarian \u003cbr\u003e 5.5 Schottelius's grammar and its architexts: his predecessors in the discourse of German grammatography   \u003cbr\u003e      5.5.1 The existing grammatical tradition \u003cbr\u003e      5.5.2 The structure of the grammar compared with its predecessors \u003cbr\u003e      5.5.3 Spelling \u003cbr\u003e      5.5.4. \u003ci\u003eEtymologia\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e 224-690): inflection and word-formation \u003cbr\u003e               5.5.4.1 Inflection \u003cbr\u003e               5.5.4.2 Word-formation \u003cbr\u003e     5.5.5 Syntax \u003cbr\u003e 5.6 Exemplification of \u003ci\u003ecopia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5.7 Schottelius's grammatical terminology \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 Intertextuality, authorities and evidence in the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 6.1 Hypotextuality and the \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6.2 Intertexts \u003cbr\u003e      6.2.1. The range of sources and authorities in the \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      6.2.2 Legal sources \u003cbr\u003e      6.2.3 Evidence of German used in technical domains \u003cbr\u003e      6.2.4 Didactic and prescriptive works on German language and style \u003cbr\u003e      6.2.5 Chronicles and other historical works \u003cbr\u003e      6.2.6 Philological study and speculation \u003cbr\u003e      6.2.7 Looking beyond Europe \u003cbr\u003e 6.3 Contemporary literary figures referenced in the \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      6.3.1 Christianity and \u003ci\u003eSpracharbeit\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6.4 A special relationship: Schottelius and Georg-Philipp Harsdörffer \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7 The legacy of the \u003ci\u003eAusführliche Arbeit\u003c\/i\u003e in Germany and in Europe\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e 7.1 Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 7.2 Cultural patriotism: the popularization of interest in and pride in German \u003cbr\u003e 7.3 Language history \u003cbr\u003e      7.3.1 The origin of German and the origin of language \u003cbr\u003e      7.3.2 Historical linguistic methodology \u003cbr\u003e      7.3.3 Understanding linguistic change in German \u003cbr\u003e 7.4 Conceptualizing language \u003cbr\u003e      7.4.1 Linguistic rationalism \u003cbr\u003e      7.4.2 Hypostatization of the language and the ‘spirit' of the language \u003cbr\u003e      7.4.3 Correct language (\u003ci\u003eSprachrichtigkeit\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003e      7.4.4 Discourse strategies for talking about the language: metaphor \u003cbr\u003e      7.4.5 Excursus: Schottelius and Leibniz \u003cbr\u003e 7.5 Lexicography \u003cbr\u003e 7.6 Subsequent Grammars of German \u003cbr\u003e 7.7 Pedagogical grammars for foreign learners \u003cbr\u003e 7.8 Grammatography in other languages \u003cbr\u003e       7.8.1 Danish grammar \u003cbr\u003e       7.8.2 Swedish grammar \u003cbr\u003e       7.8.3 Dutch grammar \u003cbr\u003e       7.8.4 Russian grammar \u003cbr\u003e       7.8.5 The rootword in Semitic and Sanskrit languages \u003cbr\u003e 7.9 Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8 Prescription and practice: Schottelius and the development of a standard language\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e 8.1 Introduction: how can we assess Schottelius's influence on language usage? \u003cbr\u003e 8.2 Scenario 1: Prescription of practice that is already widespread \u003cbr\u003e 8.3 Scenario 2: The prescription codifies practice that is found, but which is still more or less marginal compared with other forms, spellings and structures \u003cbr\u003e 8.4 Scenario 3: A variant is stigmatized \u003cbr\u003e 8.5 Scenario 4: Schottelius advocates spellings, forms or structures that are not found at all in earlier practice \u003cbr\u003e 8.6 Scenario 5: Schottelius is silent with regard to a form which nevertheless changes in frequency in subsequent usage \u003cbr\u003e 8.7 Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9 Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 1: Sources and authorities referenced in the \u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Primary sources\u003cbr\u003e  Secondary literature\u003cbr\u003e  Index of words cited\u003cbr\u003e  Index of subjects and names\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Nicola McLelland’s  study of J. G. Schottelius’s \u003ci\u003eAusf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eü\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehrliche Arbeit\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eAA\u003c\/i\u003e) is a masterly exploration of an important milestone in the history of German.”  (\u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 July 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNicola McLelland\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Nottingham. After gaining her PhD in medieval German literature at Sydney, McLelland completed an MPhil in Linguistics at Cambridge, where she discovered the history of linguistics in Vivien Law’s lectures, and first began work on the history of German grammars.  J.G. Schottelius's landmark two-volume theoretical study of German, \u003ci\u003eThe Ausführliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache\u003c\/i\u003e, was the seminal German language text of the 17th century. At 1,500 quarto pages, his work was more than ten times the length of contemporaneous grammars published in England and France (Wallis's \u003ci\u003eGrammatica Anglicana\u003c\/i\u003e, 1653, and the pioneering \u003ci\u003ePort-Royal Grammar\u003c\/i\u003e of 1660).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eGermanist and linguist Nicola McLelland presents an accessible yet scholarly exploration that makes sense of Schottelius's lengthy and often unwieldy study by interpreting its disparate elements from grammar to riddles, from verse to dialogue against European discourse traditions that shaped the German linguist's views of language.Demonstrating Schottelius's clear influence on Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Russian grammarians, McLelland reveals how his scholarly significance stretches beyond the borders of Germany to the European continent. McLelland also tackles what many consider the most difficult aspect of Schottelius's legacy within Germany: could even such an influential grammarian as Schottelius have any discernible impact on actual language use?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, McLelland's comprehensive documentation of Schottelius's voluminous source materials and citations provides an invaluable snapshot of the range and limits of scholarly knowledge in seventeenth-century Germany. This monograph offers an important reassessment of Schottelius, along with rich insights into the history of linguistic ideas in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989485338853,"sku":"NP9781444339611","price":43.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444339611.jpg?v=1761784292","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/j-g-schotteliuss-ausfuhrliche-arbeit-von-der-teutschen-haubtsprache-1663-and-its-place-in-early-modern-european-vernacular-language-study-isbn-9781444339611","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}