LEADER 04302oam 2200541 450 001 9910494643803321 005 20211020233840.0 010 $a9780812296358$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a0812296354$b(electronic bk.) 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812296358 035 $a(CKB)4950000000162701 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5979136 035 $a(DE-B1597)531784 035 $a(OCoLC)1143803023 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812296358 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000162701 100 $a20200406d2019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 181 $csti$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe prosthetic tongue $eprinting technology and the rise of the French language /$fKatie Chenoweth 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (350 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 225 1 $aMaterial Texts 311 08$aPrint version: 9780812251494 0812251490 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrologue. Originary Prints --$tChapter 1. The Artificial Tongue: Beginnings --$tChapter 2. Hand of Brass: From Manuscript to Print --$tChapter 3. Teleprinting: Geoffroy Tory and the Gallic Hercules --$tChapter 4. Phonography: Accents, Orthography, Typography --$tChapter 5. Grammatization: Pedagogies of the Mother Tongue --$tChapter 6. Prosthetic Sovereignty: François I and the Ear of the People --$tChapter 7. Survival: Du Bellay and the Life of Language --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix. Technical Treatises on the French Language, 1500-1600 --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aOf all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that the invention of printing constitutes an event in the history of language that has profoundly shaped modernity, and yet the exact nature of this transformation-the mechanics of the event-has remained curiously unexamined. In The Prosthetic Tongue, Katie Chenoweth explores the relationship between printing and the vernacular as it took shape in sixteenth-century France and charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains, from typography, orthography, and grammar to politics, pedagogy, and poetics. Under François I, the king known in his own time as the "Father of Letters," both printing and vernacular language emerged as major cultural and political forces. Beginning in 1529, French underwent a remarkable transformation, as printers and writers began to reimagine their mother tongue as mechanically reproducible. The first accent marks appeared in French texts, the first French grammar books and dictionaries were published, phonetic spelling reforms were debated, modern Roman typefaces replaced gothic scripts, and French was codified as a legal idiom. This was, Chenoweth argues, a veritable "new media" moment, in which the print medium served as the underlying material apparatus and conceptual framework for a revolutionary reinvention of the vernacular. Rather than tell the story of the origin of the modern French language, however, she seeks to destabilize this very notion of "origin" by situating the cultural formation of French in a scene of media technology and reproducibility. No less than the paper book issuing from sixteenth-century printing presses, the modern French language is a product of the age of mechanical reproduction. 410 0$aMaterial texts. 606 $aFrench language$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aMass media and language$zFrance$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aPrinting$zFrance$xHistory$y16th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench language$xHistory 615 0$aMass media and language$xHistory 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory 676 $a840.9003 700 $aChenoweth$b Katie$01028449 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494643803321 996 $aThe prosthetic tongue$92447772 997 $aUNINA