Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language
Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: | MHRA Texts and Dissertations 23 Modern Humanities Research Association 1 January 1987 • 296pp ISBN: 978-0-947623-13-5 (paperback) • RRP £25, $40 Claude Favre de Vaugelas, born in Savoy in 1585 and one of the founder members of the French Academy, is best known for his Remarques sur la langue française (1647) in which he sets out good usage of French. In this study, Wendy Ayres-Bennett analyses the development of Vaugelas's thinking on French from the only early extant manuscript of the Remarques to the final text, and compares this with Vaugelas's own usage in his translations of Fonseca's Lenten Sermons (1615) and Quintus Curtius Rufus's Life of Alexander, published in two different posthumous versions (1653, 1659). Finally, the impact of the Remarques on the subsequent history of French and on its codification is explored, and the popularity of the work is explained by situating it within its historical and socio-cultural context. Wendy Ayres-Bennett is Reader in French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Bibliography entry: Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 23 (Cambridge: MHRA, 1987) First footnote reference: 35 Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 23 (Cambridge: MHRA, 1987), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Ayres-Bennett, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Ayres-Bennett, Wendy. 1987. Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 23 (Cambridge: MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Ayres-Bennett 1987: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Ayres-Bennett 1987: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is now out of print. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Vaugelas-Development-French-Language www.mhra.org.uk/publications/td-23 |
