LAF: Learning Anglo-French: French Language-Learning Manuscripts in Britain, c.1200-c.1500

LAF：学习英法：英国法语学习手稿，c.1200-c.1500

• 批准号: EP/Y028694/1
• 负责人: Thomas Hinton
• 金额: $ 199.14万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY028694%2F1
• 关键词: LAF; Learning; Anglo; French; Language

French in medieval Britain was both a language of culture and a second vernacular. This unusual situation makes it a key case study for grasping how multilingual societies work. Yet the means by which the language was transmitted in Britain are still poorly understood. Learning Anglo-French (LAF) draws on recent methodological advances to address vital questions about the history of vernacular language acquisition and multilingualism in medieval Britain; simultaneously, it explores how far it is now possible to go in analysing medieval manuscripts and uncovering their hidden histories. Its central corpus is a group of over fifty manuscripts made in Britain between the 13th and 15th centuries containing texts used to teach French.LAF presents two notable innovations. First, its focus on manuscripts diverges from current scholarly practice, which tends to approach French language-learning materials as individual texts abstracted from their material contexts. In LAF, each manuscript will be understood as containing a specific programme of French learning, with relevant materials grouped together in differing constellations that are yet to be studied cohesively. Second, the manuscripts will be subjected to holistic analysis at a level that has rarely been attempted for any medieval materials, with results integrated into an open-access database and disseminated through high-profile publications. The analyses envisaged will include digital codicology, linguistic analysis and DNA and protein analysis. Together, these investigations will uncover concrete answers to problems that have historically appeared intractable yet crucial: Where was French being learned? What kind of French? How, by whom, and in what contexts? The presentation of data in interactive and searchable formats will enable the formulation of new research questions across a range of fields, including Modern Languages,English Studies, History, Codicology, Education, Linguistics and Archaeology.

在中世纪的英国，法语既是一种文化语言，也是第二种方言。这种不寻常的情况使其成为掌握多语言社会如何运作的关键案例研究。然而，人们对这种语言在英国传播的方式仍然知之甚少。学习英语法语（LAF）借鉴了最近的方法进步，以解决有关中世纪英国本土语言习得和多语言历史的重要问题;同时，它探讨了现在可以在分析中世纪手稿和揭示其隐藏的历史方面走多远。它的中心语料库是一组超过50份13世纪和15世纪之间在英国制作的手稿，其中包含用于教授法语的文本。首先，它对手稿的关注偏离了当前的学术实践，这种学术实践倾向于将法语语言学习材料作为从其材料背景中抽象出来的单独文本。在LAF中，每一份手稿都将被理解为包含一个特定的法语学习计划，相关材料被归类在不同的星座中，尚待研究。第二，将对手稿进行全面分析，这是对任何中世纪材料很少进行的分析，分析结果将纳入一个开放的数据库，并通过高知名度的出版物传播。所设想的分析将包括数字编纂学、语言分析以及DNA和蛋白质分析。这些调查将共同揭示历史上看似棘手但至关重要的问题的具体答案：法语是在哪里学的？哪种法语？如何，由谁，在什么情况下？以交互式和可搜索的格式呈现数据将有助于在一系列领域制定新的研究问题，包括现代语言，英语研究，历史，编纂学，教育，语言学和考古学。