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My thesis attempts to provide an overall view of Vaugelas's work, to indicate the development of his ideas during his lifetime, to place the Remarques sur la langue françoise (1647) in a historical and sociological context, and to evaluate the importance of his ideas both for the writing of works on language and for the evolution of the French language itself. Three principal lines of enquiry have been adopted - the historical, the linguistic, and the sociolinguistic. I have been concerned with three historical questions. Firstly, how did Vaugelas's ideas develop during his lifetime? This involved analysis of the usage of the early translation of Fonseca's Lenten sermons (1615), the Arsenal manuscript of the Remarques, which differs in several crucial ways from the published version, the Remarques themselves, and finally the two posthumous versions of Vaugelas's translation of Quinte-Curce's De la vie et des actions d'Alexandre le grand (1653, 1659). Secondly, I have examined the place of the Remarques in the history of grammatical writing by considering Vaugelas's intellectual predecessors and thereby evaluating his originality. Thirdly, I have traced the influence of Vaugelas's ideas on subsequent writings on linguistic matters and his impact on the evolution of French. The second concern - the linguistic - has involved detailed analysis of Vaugelas's work, focusing on the tension between theory and practice in the Remarques and the discrepancies between the theoretical pronouncements of the observations and Vaugelas's actual usage in the translations. Enquiry has been pursued at both the general theoretical level and through analysis of the details of Vaugelas's linguistic doctrine. Thirdly, I have added a sociolinguistic dimension to my study in order to explain not only the popularity and success of the Remarques, but also the reason for many of the linguistic pronouncements. I show how in a sense the linguistic is subsumed by the sociological, the goal and intended audience of the work determining in no small way the theory of language expressed in the Remarques.

This thesis studies the use of rhetoric, poetics and logic in thirteenth-century Italian poetry, specifically that of Guido Cavalcanti. The poetic production of Cavalcanti is examined as an example of the synthesis of science and poetry, and secondly as an example of the use of persuasive techniques. / In particular, I examine his so-called minor poems as examples of the theory of love expressed in "Donna me prega". My work hinges on two aspects: the fact that the central metaphor in the poetry of Cavalcanti represents the phenomenology of love as a passion of the body using medical terminology from Avicenna, and that the radical Aristotelianism (marginalised by the ecclesiastical condemnations) defines Cavalcanti's philosophical and scientific discourse. Cavalcanti combats the opposition of his readership to his radical Aristotelianism with persuasive techniques, rhetorical and poetic, and with logic found in Aristotle, his commentators Gundisalvus, al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes, and Roger Bacon.

This thesis explores mood selection in Old Italian, describing the use of the subjunctive and indicative in complement clauses in non-literary Tuscan of the Quattrocento (1375-1499). Using Wandruszka’s (1991) model of the subjunctive, and a Tuscan corpus of merchant letters and ricordi, sermons and other religious writing, based on Tavoni’s (1992) hierarchy of non-literary Quattrocento writings, I quantitatively assess the factors that influence mood selection in complement clauses. I restrict my analysis to complement clauses so as to compare the findings with those of Stefinlongo’s (1977) and Vegnaduzzo’s (2000) similar corpus-based studies of mood selection in thirteenth-century Italian, where possible, in order to suggest any trends in the use of the subjunctive. While I find that the semantics of the governing lexical element still has the predominant influence on the mood of the complement clause in fifteenth-century Italian, I also find that other factors, such as clause type, person and number, and tense and aspect, have a significant role in the modal outcome of complement clauses. However, the influence of these other factors is neither categorical nor equal, and it may be collective in the case of co-present factors. By conducting a quantitative comparison of mood selection in a variety of text types, my study also investigates Stefinlongo’s hypothesis that subjunctive use is not influenced solely by semantic or syntactic factors but also by features at the level of text type. However, I find the modal influence of text type to be largely indirect, influencing the relative incidence of different semantic contexts which in turn influences the incidence of subjunctive and indicative in a text. The findings of this study serve to inform our understanding of the evolution of the subjunctive in Italian.

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Thesis--Universität Kiel. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-94).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures. / A Dissertation, submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures. Includes bibliographical references.