What have you found so far regarding language attitudes and beliefs within these manuals? And what might these attitudes tell us about the time period that these manuals were created in?

Thank you for this question.

As you said, this project is more than analyzing language from a structural perspective.

Yeah, we are especially focusing on the use of language, as you heard before.

So usage is the most important thing.

Before I go into the details, you should know, as Natalia mentioned before, that German in the 16th century was not yet standardized.

So educated people thought about and reflected on what constituted good and correct German, but there was no binding norm.

And I think showing this project shows, hey, this is not new

Who were the language masters during this time period and who was the intended audience of these manuals that they created?

Yeah, that is a very interesting question and when we ask who the language masters were and who their manuals were intended for, I think we have to keep two things in mind.

As Natalia mentioned it, just their social backgrounds and of course the practical purpose of the books.

So the language masters were a fascinating and, as we've heard, a very diverse group of people.

And what makes them particularly interesting is that their personal and as well educational backgrounds could directly influence what they wrote and how they taught.

Yeah, some of them had been soldiers or dancing masters, but some of them even were scholarly trained or even professors.

But they all shared one basic goal, I think, to teach practical language skills and help people function in a foreign language environment.

How do you think these historic foreign language manuals can help us understand contemporary debates, speaking of things like prescriptivism, about language teaching, language policy, or multilingualism?

Who were the language masters during this time period, and who was the intended audience of these manuals that they created?

Yeah, that is a very interesting question.

And, uh, when we ask who the language masters were and who their manuals were intended for, I think we have to keep two things in mind.

As Natalia mentioned it, uh, just their social backgrounds and of course, uh, the practical purpose of the books.

So the language masters were a fascinating and, as we've heard, a very diverse group of people, and what makes them particularly interesting is that their personal and as well educational backgrounds could directly influence what they wrote and how they taught.

So yeah, some of them have been soldiers or dancing masters, but some of them even were scholarly trained or even professors.

But they all shared one basic goal, I think, to teach practical language skills and help people function in a foreign language environment.

What have you found so far regarding language attitudes and beliefs within these manuals, and what might these attitudes tell us about the time period that these manuals were created in?

What have you found so far regarding language attitudes and beliefs within these manuals? And what might these attitudes tell us about the time period that these manuals were created in?

Thank you for this question.

As you said, this project is more than analyzing language from a structural perspective.

Yeah, we are especially focusing on the use of language, as you heard before.

So usage is the most important thing.

Before I go into the details, you should know, as Natalia mentioned before, that German in the 16th century was not yet standardized.

So educated people thought about and reflected on what constituted good and correct German, but there was no binding norm.

And I think showing this project shows, hey, this is not new

What have you found so far regarding language attitudes and beliefs within these manuals? And what might these attitudes tell us about the time period that these manuals were created in?

Thank you for this question.

As you said, this project is more than analyzing language from a structural perspective.

Yeah, we are especially focusing on the use of language, as you heard before.

So usage is It's the most important thing.

Before I go into the details, you should know, as Natalia mentioned before, that German in the 16th century was not yet standardized.

So educated people thought about and reflected on what constituted good and correct German, but there was no binding norm.

And I think showing this project shows, hey, this is not new