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Free Download Katie Chenoweth, "The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language "
English | ISBN: 0812251490 | 2019 | 360 pages | PDF | 29 MB
Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that the invention of printing constitutes an event in the history of language that has profoundly shaped modernity, and yet the exact nature of this transformation-the mechanics of the event-has remained curiously unexamined.
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