The Golden Mean of Languages
- Alisa van de Haar
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The Golden Mean of Languages is written by Alisa van de Haar and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004408592 (ISBN 10) and 9789004408593 (ISBN 13).
In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French has been studied mainly from monolingual perspectives tracing the development towards modern Dutch or French. Van de Haar shows that the discussions on these languages were rooted in multilingual environments, in particular in French schools, Calvinist churches, printing houses, and chambers of rhetoric. The proposals that were formulated there to forge Dutch and French into useful forms were not directed solely at uniformization but were much more diverse.
