Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of Figures 11
4. List of Tables 12
5. Introduction : Language teaching and grammatization in the colonial empires 13
6. I Iberian Mission Lands
7. 1 Toward a historiography of foreign language documentation , teaching and learning of non-Western languages in a missionary context (16th–18th centuries) 91
8. 2 A contribution to the history of missionary grammars and Romance languages grammars: The commensurability of metalanguage and categories in the sixteenth century 143
9. II The Sinic World
10. 3 Learning a language while making it up. Matteo Ricci’s ways of inculturation and the communicative strategy of the Company of Jesus 169
11. 4 For an epistemological and cognitive approach to Matteo Ricci’s The Palace of Memory. Didactics and imaginative processes 187
12. 5 The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities 215
13. III West Africa
14. 6 Language policy within the French colonial army : The First World War and beyond 245
15. 7 The “civilization-language-culture” relationship in reading books for teaching in French to allophone schoolchildren (1885–1930): A window opened to the past 269
16. IV East Africa
17. 8 From teaching non-Arabs Arabic to Arabization in 1950s Sudan 291
18. 9 Italian colonial educational policy in the Horn of Africa 311
19. V Middle East
20. 10 How to create a language by describing it? Orientalists and pure colloquial Arabic 333
21. 11 Politique d’enseignement au Liban au début du Mandat français : les manuels scolaires en français et la place de l’arabe au Collège de Beyrouth 347
22. VI Southeast Asia
23. 12 The Romanized writing of Vietnamese: A unique case in the Far East 367
24. 13 On Indonesian and English as lingua francas: Colonial, national, global 389
25. VII Europe
26. 14 Un empire culturel et littéraire : quelques grammaires de l’italien langue étrangère (seizième–dixseptième siècle) 407
27. 15 “A language that reigns in the city” : Italian in grammar books for foreigners (second half of the 18th century) 425
28. 16 L’enseignement du grec moderne comme langue étrangère : des missionnaires catholiques aux grammairiens philhellènes 451
29. List of abbreviations (Index) 479
30. Index of names 481
31. Index of languages and script names 493