TY - JOUR
T1 - The curious multilingual prehistory of French and German monolingualism
AU - Poor, Sara S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by The German Studies Association.
PY - 2018/10
Y1 - 2018/10
N2 - In 842, Louis the German (of the eastern Franks) and his younger brother, Charles the Bald (of the western Franks) performed the Strasbourg oaths of loyalty to one another-each in the vernacular associated with the other and his followers. In the language-based disciplines of French and German, these oaths stand at the beginning of a history that has obscured the multilingual situation from which it emerged. This essay revisits that prehistory, uncovering biases in current terminology and offering alternatives. The essay concludes with a discussion of early modern reception, suggesting a different narrative for the history of monolingualism.
AB - In 842, Louis the German (of the eastern Franks) and his younger brother, Charles the Bald (of the western Franks) performed the Strasbourg oaths of loyalty to one another-each in the vernacular associated with the other and his followers. In the language-based disciplines of French and German, these oaths stand at the beginning of a history that has obscured the multilingual situation from which it emerged. This essay revisits that prehistory, uncovering biases in current terminology and offering alternatives. The essay concludes with a discussion of early modern reception, suggesting a different narrative for the history of monolingualism.
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U2 - 10.1353/gsr.2018.0089
DO - 10.1353/gsr.2018.0089
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85055893603
SN - 0149-7952
VL - 41
SP - 465
EP - 485
JO - German Studies Review
JF - German Studies Review
IS - 3
ER -