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Article: Images of Language: Six Essays on German Attitudes to European Languages from 1500 to 1800.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2001
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Images of Language: Six Essays on German Attitudes to European Languages from 1500 to 1800. By WILLIAM JERVIS JONES. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89) Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1999. x + 297 pp. Hfl 150; $75.
In Images of Language, William Jervis Jones explores the status of neighbouring languages in the perception of Germans from 1500 to 1800, with occasional reference to attitudes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He aims to observe 'the reception of traditional tenets, the refunctionalising of older models, the interplay of religion, philosophy and linguistic observation' in order to provide a better understanding of early sociolinguistic ...