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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Acknowledgements 10 Chronology 1450–1794 12 Prologue: communities and domains 17 THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE 18 THE PROBLEM OF COMMUNITY 21 THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH 23 THREE PROBLEMS 25 STORIES 29 CHAPTER 1 ‘Speak, that I may see thee’: the discovery of language in early modern Europe 31 THE LATER MIDDLE AGES 31 DISCOVERING LANGUAGE 32 DEFECIT AND ABUNDANCE 33 1. THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE 35 The comparative approach 40 2. LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY 41 Sociolects 45 Language and religion 48 Language and gender 49 Dialects 51 Playwrights as witnesses 54 The importance of accent 56 CHAPTER 2 Latin: a language in search of a community 59 LATIN IN THE CHURCH 64 LATIN IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS 68 CHAPTER 3 Vernaculars in competition 77 THE WHIG INTERPRETATION AND ITS PROBLEMS 77 THE RENAISSANCE AND THE PRAISES OF THE VERNACULAR 81 COMPETITION 86 LINGUISTIC DOMAINS 87 LAW AND ADMINISTRATION 88 LANGUAGE AND POLITICS 91 THE DOMAIN OF LEARNING 92 THE LANGUAGES OF RELIGION 94 TRANSLATIONS 95 IMPERIALISM 97 WINNERS AND LOSERS IN EUROPE 98 FRENCH AS A LINGUA FRANCA 101 CHAPTER 4 Standardizing languages 105 THE ROLE OF PRINT 107 CODIFI

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PETER BURKE

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