02780nam 2200697Ia 450 991081885030332120200520144314.00-8014-5894-3(CKB)2670000000080969(OCoLC)726824227(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457590(SSID)ssj0000487392(PQKBManifestationID)11318121(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487392(PQKBWorkID)10442997(PQKB)10428212(MdBmJHUP)muse28841(Au-PeEL)EBL3137969(CaPaEBR)ebr10457590(MiAaPQ)EBC3137969(EXLCZ)99267000000008096920091116d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSigns of light French and British theories of linguistic communication, 1648-1789 /Matthew Lauzon1st ed.Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press20101 online resource (268 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-4847-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Bestial banter -- Homo risus : making light of animal language -- Warming savage hearts and heating eloquent tongues -- From savage orators to savage languages -- French levity -- English energy -- Coda : French levity and English energy in the revolutionary wake.Lauzon traces the development of very different French and British ideas about language over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates how important these ideas were to emerging notions of of national character.LinguisticsFranceHistory17th centuryLinguisticsFranceHistory18th centuryLinguisticsGreat BritainHistory17th centuryLinguisticsGreat BritainHistory18th centuryLanguage and languagesPhilosophyHistory17th centuryLanguage and languagesPhilosophyHistory18th centuryEnlightenmentFranceEnlightenmentGreat BritainLinguisticsHistoryLinguisticsHistoryLinguisticsHistoryLinguisticsHistoryLanguage and languagesPhilosophyHistoryLanguage and languagesPhilosophyHistoryEnlightenmentEnlightenment410.944/09032Lauzon Matthew1972-1618758MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818850303321Signs of light3950655UNINA