Dedication

pp 5-6

Contents

pp 7-10

List of Figures

pp 11-11

List of Tables

pp 12-12

Introduction: Language teaching and grammatization in the colonial empires

pp 13-88

I - Iberian Mission Lands

pp 89-90

1 - Toward a historiography of foreign language documentation , teaching and learning of non-Western languages in a missionary context (16th–18th centuries)

pp 91-142

2 - A contribution to the history of missionary grammars and Romance languages grammars: The commensurability of metalanguage and categories in the sixteenth century

pp 143-166

II - The Sinic World

pp 167-168

3 - Learning a language while making it up. Matteo Ricci's ways of inculturation and the communicative strategy of the Company of Jesus

pp 169-186

4 - For an epistemological and cognitive approach to Matteo Ricci's The Palace of Memory. Didactics and imaginative processes

pp 187-214

5 - The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities

pp 215-242

III - West Africa

pp 243-244

6 - Language policy within the French colonial army: The First World War and beyond

pp 245-268

7 - The “civilization-language-culture” relationship in reading books for teaching in French to allophone schoolchildren (1885–1930): A window opened to the past

pp 269-288

IV - East Africa

pp 289-290

8 - From teaching non-Arabs Arabic to Arabization in 1950s Sudan

pp 291-310

9 - Italian colonial educational policy in the Horn of Africa

pp 311-330

V - Middle East

pp 331-332

10 - How to create a language by describing it? Orientalists and pure colloquial Arabic

pp 333-346

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

pp 347-364

VI - Southeast Asia

pp 365-366

12 - The Romanized writing of Vietnamese: A unique case in the Far East

pp 367-388

13 - On Indonesian and English as lingua francas: Colonial, national, global

pp 389-404

VII - Europe

pp 405-406

14 - Un empire culturel et littéraire: quelques grammaires de l’italien langue étrangère (seizième–dixseptième siècle)

pp 407-424

15 - “A language that reigns in the city”: Italian in grammar books for foreigners (second half of the 18th century)

pp 425-450

16 - L’enseignement du grec moderne comme langue étrangère: des missionnaires catholiques aux grammairiens philhellènes

pp 451-478

List of abbreviations (Index)

pp 479-480