The Travelogue as a Mirror of Thought

This paper discusses Dutch historical travelogues as a source for linguistic research. On the one hand one can find descriptions of exotic languages or undocumented remote dialects in travel journals, on the other hand one may come across philosophical and theoretical ideas about language in the uto...

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Main Author:	Hamans Camiel
Format:	Article
Language:	Afrikaans
Published:	Sciendo 2018-12-01
Series:	Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies
Subjects:	travelogue philosophical and universal languages exotic languages early comparative linguistics historical dialectology
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.2478/werk-2018-0005

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description	This paper discusses Dutch historical travelogues as a source for linguistic research. On the one hand one can find descriptions of exotic languages or undocumented remote dialects in travel journals, on the other hand one may come across philosophical and theoretical ideas about language in the utopian reports of imaginary voyages.
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The Travelogue as a Mirror of Thought

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