1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795367503321

Autore

Chenoweth Katie

Titolo

The prosthetic tongue : printing technology and the rise of the French language / / Katie Chenoweth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9780812296358

0812296354

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Material Texts

Classificazione

ID 3040

Disciplina

840.9003

Soggetti

French language - History - 16th century

Mass media and language - France - History - 16th century

Printing - France - History - 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue. Originary Prints -- Chapter 1. The Artificial Tongue: Beginnings -- Chapter 2. Hand of Brass: From Manuscript to Print -- Chapter 3. Teleprinting: Geoffroy Tory and the Gallic Hercules -- Chapter 4. Phonography: Accents, Orthography, Typography -- Chapter 5. Grammatization: Pedagogies of the Mother Tongue -- Chapter 6. Prosthetic Sovereignty: François I and the Ear of the People -- Chapter 7. Survival: Du Bellay and the Life of Language -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Technical Treatises on the French Language, 1500-1600 -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that the invention of printing constitutes an event in the history of language that has profoundly shaped modernity, and yet the exact nature of this transformation-the mechanics of the event-has remained curiously unexamined. In The Prosthetic Tongue, Katie Chenoweth explores the relationship between printing and the vernacular as it took shape in sixteenth-century France and charts the technological reinvention of



French across a range of domains, from typography, orthography, and grammar to politics, pedagogy, and poetics. Under François I, the king known in his own time as the "Father of Letters," both printing and vernacular language emerged as major cultural and political forces. Beginning in 1529, French underwent a remarkable transformation, as printers and writers began to reimagine their mother tongue as mechanically reproducible. The first accent marks appeared in French texts, the first French grammar books and dictionaries were published, phonetic spelling reforms were debated, modern Roman typefaces replaced gothic scripts, and French was codified as a legal idiom. This was, Chenoweth argues, a veritable "new media" moment, in which the print medium served as the underlying material apparatus and conceptual framework for a revolutionary reinvention of the vernacular. Rather than tell the story of the origin of the modern French language, however, she seeks to destabilize this very notion of "origin" by situating the cultural formation of French in a scene of media technology and reproducibility. No less than the paper book issuing from sixteenth-century printing presses, the modern French language is a product of the age of mechanical reproduction.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817187303321

Titolo

Pandemic solidarity : mutual aid during the covid-19 crisis / / edited by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar ; foreword by Rebecca Solnit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pluto Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-7453-4318-X

0-7453-4320-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 276 pages) : illustrations

Collana

FireWorks (Pluto Press)

Disciplina

362.1962414

Soggetti

COVID-19 (Disease) - Social aspects

COVID-19

Social Networking

Social Support

Essay

essays.

Essays.

Essais.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Rebecca Solnit -- Introduction / by Marina Sitrin -- About Colectiva Sembrar -- Communal lifeboat : direct democracy in Rojava (NE Syria) / Emre Sahin and Khabat Abbas -- "Capitalism kills, solidarity gives life" : a glimpse of solidarity networks from Turkey / Seyma Özdemir -- Solidarity network in Iraq during Covid-19 : this time the enemy is invisible / Midya Khudhur -- Sharing spaces and crossing borders : voices from Taiwan / Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang -- Standing in solidarity with those who must refuse to keep a social distance : disability activism in South Korea / Ji Young Shin ; translated by Han Gil Jang -- Rethinking minority and mainstream in India / Debarati Roy -- Confronting state authoritarianism : civil society and community-based solidarity in southern Africa / Boaventura Monjane -- On intersectional solidarity in Portugal / Lais Gomes Duarte and



Raquel Lima -- Solidarity flourishes under lockdown in Italy / Eleanor Finley -- Solidarity networks in Greece / EP and TP -- Viral solidarity : experiences from the UK / Neil Howard -- Turtle Island / carla bergman and magalí rabasa with Ariella Patchen and Seyma Özdemir -- Argentina : injustices magnified, memories of resistance reactivated / Nancy Viviana Piñeiro and Liz Mason-Deese -- On grassroots organizing : excerpts from Brazil / Vanessa Zettler -- Concluding to begin / Colectiva Sembrar.

Sommario/riassunto

Collects first-hand experiences from around the world of people creating their own networks of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of Covid-19.--