Lenguas e identidades en los comienzos de la Europa moderna

Peter Burke

doi:10.3989/arbor.2006.i722.70

Abstract

This article is concerned with the relation between language and collective identities. Since 1789, language has been associated more and more closely with national identity. Before the French Revolution, on the other hand, the identities expressed by language were more likely to be religious, regional, occupational or sexual. All the same, a concern with national pride is revealed in early modern treatises in praise of particular vernaculars (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.), while attempts to purify different languages from the “contamination” of foreign words express a form of xenophobia.

Highlights

This article is concerned with the relation between language and collective identities
Before the French Revolution, on the other hand, the identities expressed by language were more likely to be religious, regional, occupational or sexual
A concern with national pride is revealed in early modern treatises in praise of particular vernaculars (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.), while attempts to purify different languages from the “contamination” of foreign words express a form of xenophobia

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Introduction

This article is concerned with the relation between language and collective identities. También una preocupación por el orgullo nacional se revela en tratados de la modernidad temprana en elogios de particularidades vernáculas (italianas, francesas, españolas, portuguesas, etc.), mientras que los intentos de purificar diferentes lenguas de la “contaminación” de palabras extranjeras expresan una forma de xenofobia.

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