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Introduction: Language teaching and grammatization in the colonial empires
Dan Savatovsky
I Iberian Mission Lands
1 Toward a historiography of foreign language documentation, teaching and learning of non-Western languages in a missionary context (16th-18th centuries)
Otto Zwartjes
2 A contribution to the history of missionary grammars and Romance languages grammars: The commensurability of metalanguage and categories in the sixteenth century
Alejandro Díaz Villalba
II The Sinic World
3 Learning a language while making it up. Matteo Ricci's ways of inculturation and the communicative strategy of the Company of Jesus
Diego Poli
4 For an epistemological and cognitive approach to Matteo Ricci's The Palace of Memory. Didactics and imaginative processes
† Maria Lucia Aliffi and Mariangela Albano
5 The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities
Tinghe Jin and Steven Cowan
III West Africa
6 Language policy within the French colonial army: The First World War and beyond
Cécile Van Den Avenne
7 The "civilization-language-culture" relationship in reading books for teaching in French to allophone schoolchildren (1885-1930): A window opened to the past
Valérie Spaëth
IV East Africa
8 From teaching non-Arabs Arabic to Arabization in 1950s Sudan
Andrea Facchin
9 Italian colonial educational policy in the Horn of Africa
Raymond Siebetcheu
V Middle East
10 How to create a language by describing it? Orientalists and pure colloquial Arabic
Tarek Abouelgamal
11 Politique d'enseignement au Liban au début du Mandat français : les manuels scolaires en français et la place de l'arabe au Collège de Beyrouth
Manar El Kak
VI Southeast Asia.
12 The Romanized writing of Vietnamese: A unique case in the Far East
Thị Kiều Ly Phạm and Mariangela Albano
13 On Indonesian and English as lingua francas: Colonial, national, global
Joseph Errington
VII Europe
14 Un empire culturel et littéraire : quelques grammaires de l'italien langue étrangère (seizième-dix-septième siècle)
Giada Mattarucco
15 "A language that reigns in the city": Italian in grammar books for foreigners (second half of the 18th century)
Norma Romanelli
16 L'enseignement du grec moderne comme langue étrangère : des missionnaires catholiques aux grammairiens philhellènes
Lélia (Evangélia) Pantéloglou
List of abbreviations (Index)
Index of names
Index of languages and script names
List of Figures
Fig. 1a. Annotated translation in Quintana's Compendio de Vozes Mixes (1733), fol. 97
Fig. 1b. Quintana's Compendio de Vozes Mixes (1733), fol. 126
Fig. 2a Alphabetum Armenum (1784), frontispiece
Fig. 2b Alphabetvm Ibericvm siue Georgianvm vulgare (1629), frontispiece
Figs. 3a &
3b. Hernández, Doctrina Christiana en lengva misteca (1568), fols. LV and LXII
Figs. 4a &
4b. Flores, Arte de la lengva metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel (1753), fols. 36 and 286
Figs. 5a, 5b, &
5c. Flores, Arte de la lengva metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel (1753), fols. 284, 127, and 108
E: English, S: Spanish, I: Italian, P: Portuguese, F: French
Fig. 6. Morrison, Dictionary of the Chinese Language, vol. 1 (1815), p. 44240
Fig. 7. "Map of the races of French West Africa providing Senegalese tirailleurs" (legend), in La Dépêche coloniale illustrée, February 1917, n.p. [23>
24]: "French West Africa and black troops"
Fig. 8. Cover of Ferrage, Petit manuel français-bambara à l'usage des troupes noires (1918).
Fig. 9. Excerpt taken from Ferrage, Petit manuel français-bambara à l'usage des troupes noires (1918)
Fig. 10. Excerpt taken from: Anonymous, Le français tel que le parlent nos tirailleurs sénégalais (1916), p. 21
Fig. 11. Drawing taken from La dépêche coloniale illustrée, February 1917, n.p.: "French West Africa and the black troops"
Fig. 12. G. Bruno, Le tour de la France par deux enfants (last page, 1904 edition)
Figs. 13a &
13b. Louis Machuel, Méthode de lecture (1885). Lesson 12, "Vengeance d'un éléphant"
Fig. 14. Sonolet and Pérès, Méthode de lecture: "Les métiers" [Professions] (1915)
Fig. 15. Davesne, Mamadou et Bineta (1931). Ch. 1-"School" and Ch. 2-"The Human Body"
Fig. 16. M. Fresco, Syllabaire (1891):"Monsieur Paul écrit," 90-91
Fig. 17. De Rhodes, Dictionarivm Annamiticvm… (1651), col. 1-2
List of Tables
Table 1. circonlocution and périphrase in French grammars before 1600
Table 2. circunloquio and rodeo in Portuguese grammars (Barros) and Spanish grammars before 1600
Table 3. Terms suplir/suprir, circunloquio/circunlóquio and rodeo in the first missionary grammars
Table 4. Chronology of compulsory schooling in Italy
Table 5. Public colonial schools in Eritrea and Somalia (1935)
Table 6. António de Fontes. Signs for tones, ARSI. Jap-Sin 85, fols. 89r-123r.
Table 7. Examples of English/Malay lexical usage
Tableau 8. L'enseignement/apprentissage du grec moderne (dix-septième-dix-neuvième siècle).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Language teaching and grammatization in the colonial empires
Dan Savatovsky
I Iberian Mission Lands
1 Toward a historiography of foreign language documentation, teaching and learning of non-Western languages in a missionary context (16th-18th centuries)
Otto Zwartjes
2 A contribution to the history of missionary grammars and Romance languages grammars: The commensurability of metalanguage and categories in the sixteenth century
Alejandro Díaz Villalba
II The Sinic World
3 Learning a language while making it up. Matteo Ricci's ways of inculturation and the communicative strategy of the Company of Jesus
Diego Poli
4 For an epistemological and cognitive approach to Matteo Ricci's The Palace of Memory. Didactics and imaginative processes
† Maria Lucia Aliffi and Mariangela Albano
5 The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities
Tinghe Jin and Steven Cowan
III West Africa
6 Language policy within the French colonial army: The First World War and beyond
Cécile Van Den Avenne
7 The "civilization-language-culture" relationship in reading books for teaching in French to allophone schoolchildren (1885-1930): A window opened to the past
Valérie Spaëth
IV East Africa
8 From teaching non-Arabs Arabic to Arabization in 1950s Sudan
Andrea Facchin
9 Italian colonial educational policy in the Horn of Africa
Raymond Siebetcheu
V Middle East
10 How to create a language by describing it? Orientalists and pure colloquial Arabic
Tarek Abouelgamal
11 Politique d'enseignement au Liban au début du Mandat français : les manuels scolaires en français et la place de l'arabe au Collège de Beyrouth
Manar El Kak
VI Southeast Asia.
12 The Romanized writing of Vietnamese: A unique case in the Far East
Thị Kiều Ly Phạm and Mariangela Albano
13 On Indonesian and English as lingua francas: Colonial, national, global
Joseph Errington
VII Europe
14 Un empire culturel et littéraire : quelques grammaires de l'italien langue étrangère (seizième-dix-septième siècle)
Giada Mattarucco
15 "A language that reigns in the city": Italian in grammar books for foreigners (second half of the 18th century)
Norma Romanelli
16 L'enseignement du grec moderne comme langue étrangère : des missionnaires catholiques aux grammairiens philhellènes
Lélia (Evangélia) Pantéloglou
List of abbreviations (Index)
Index of names
Index of languages and script names
List of Figures
Fig. 1a. Annotated translation in Quintana's Compendio de Vozes Mixes (1733), fol. 97
Fig. 1b. Quintana's Compendio de Vozes Mixes (1733), fol. 126
Fig. 2a Alphabetum Armenum (1784), frontispiece
Fig. 2b Alphabetvm Ibericvm siue Georgianvm vulgare (1629), frontispiece
Figs. 3a &
3b. Hernández, Doctrina Christiana en lengva misteca (1568), fols. LV and LXII
Figs. 4a &
4b. Flores, Arte de la lengva metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel (1753), fols. 36 and 286
Figs. 5a, 5b, &
5c. Flores, Arte de la lengva metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel (1753), fols. 284, 127, and 108
E: English, S: Spanish, I: Italian, P: Portuguese, F: French
Fig. 6. Morrison, Dictionary of the Chinese Language, vol. 1 (1815), p. 44240
Fig. 7. "Map of the races of French West Africa providing Senegalese tirailleurs" (legend), in La Dépêche coloniale illustrée, February 1917, n.p. [23>
24]: "French West Africa and black troops"
Fig. 8. Cover of Ferrage, Petit manuel français-bambara à l'usage des troupes noires (1918).
Fig. 9. Excerpt taken from Ferrage, Petit manuel français-bambara à l'usage des troupes noires (1918)
Fig. 10. Excerpt taken from: Anonymous, Le français tel que le parlent nos tirailleurs sénégalais (1916), p. 21
Fig. 11. Drawing taken from La dépêche coloniale illustrée, February 1917, n.p.: "French West Africa and the black troops"
Fig. 12. G. Bruno, Le tour de la France par deux enfants (last page, 1904 edition)
Figs. 13a &
13b. Louis Machuel, Méthode de lecture (1885). Lesson 12, "Vengeance d'un éléphant"
Fig. 14. Sonolet and Pérès, Méthode de lecture: "Les métiers" [Professions] (1915)
Fig. 15. Davesne, Mamadou et Bineta (1931). Ch. 1-"School" and Ch. 2-"The Human Body"
Fig. 16. M. Fresco, Syllabaire (1891):"Monsieur Paul écrit," 90-91
Fig. 17. De Rhodes, Dictionarivm Annamiticvm… (1651), col. 1-2
List of Tables
Table 1. circonlocution and périphrase in French grammars before 1600
Table 2. circunloquio and rodeo in Portuguese grammars (Barros) and Spanish grammars before 1600
Table 3. Terms suplir/suprir, circunloquio/circunlóquio and rodeo in the first missionary grammars
Table 4. Chronology of compulsory schooling in Italy
Table 5. Public colonial schools in Eritrea and Somalia (1935)
Table 6. António de Fontes. Signs for tones, ARSI. Jap-Sin 85, fols. 89r-123r.
Table 7. Examples of English/Malay lexical usage
Tableau 8. L'enseignement/apprentissage du grec moderne (dix-septième-dix-neuvième siècle).