The Mediterranean, sea of our languages.
CNRS| N° d'inventaire | 22501 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 382 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782271131379 |
Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Etruscan, Berber, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, French: these languages from around the Mediterranean tell us about the history of this liquid continent. They are first and foremost the trace of the empires and powers that have succeeded one another in the Mediterranean, but also that of the trade of people, ideas, and commodities, which have formed this space into a homogeneous whole. This book, based on a sociolinguistic and geopolitical approach, therefore takes languages, "linguae nostrae," as the common thread of this history. Because languages and words have a memory. They bear witness to interactions, conquests, expeditions, and circulations. Whether in borrowings, semantics, alphabets, or toponymy, the traces of exchanges within this mare nostrum are numerous. From the voyage of Ulysses to today's migrations, including the Crusades and the Levantine crossings, these languages have shaped and inhabited the Mediterranean, to the rhythm of the historical events that have marked it, and which have made it the laboratory of humanity for more than 3,000 years.
Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Etruscan, Berber, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, French: these languages from around the Mediterranean tell us about the history of this liquid continent. They are first and foremost the trace of the empires and powers that have succeeded one another in the Mediterranean, but also that of the trade of people, ideas, and commodities, which have formed this space into a homogeneous whole. This book, based on a sociolinguistic and geopolitical approach, therefore takes languages, "linguae nostrae," as the common thread of this history. Because languages and words have a memory. They bear witness to interactions, conquests, expeditions, and circulations. Whether in borrowings, semantics, alphabets, or toponymy, the traces of exchanges within this mare nostrum are numerous. From the voyage of Ulysses to today's migrations, including the Crusades and the Levantine crossings, these languages have shaped and inhabited the Mediterranean, to the rhythm of the historical events that have marked it, and which have made it the laboratory of humanity for more than 3,000 years.