Project

Greetings from the past: on the use of interjections in foreign language textbooks from Early modern Flanders

Code
01N00819
Looptijd
01-01-2019 → 31-12-2022
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Historical linguistics
    • History and historiography of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies not elsewhere classified
Trefwoorden
Historische sociolinguïstiek interjecties taalcontact historische semantiek en pragmatiek geschiedenis van het taalonderwijs vroegmodern Vlaanderen
 
Projectomschrijving

This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks (Colloquia, et dictionariolum, 1536-1700) which we will compile. The project will also provide insight into aspects of linguistic and cultural knowledge transfer through language teaching in Early modern Flanders.