The article deals with the use of French as a second language for personal expression in the correspondence of the pluringual and pluricultural countess of Albany (1752-1824) with kings, politicians, diplomats and European writers. The letters of this French educated lady, who was Prussian from her origin and spent a large part of her life in Italy, reveal on her perception of the world of whose realities she speaks from day to day. The aim of this study is to analyse how in the everyday practice of writing, the countess of Albany offers an image of herself elaborated in an attitude of introspection expressed in French as lingua franca, language of private life par excellence.
Le français langue de l’intime dans la correspondance de la comtesse d’Albany (1752-1824)
PISELLI, FRANCESCA
2017
Abstract
The article deals with the use of French as a second language for personal expression in the correspondence of the pluringual and pluricultural countess of Albany (1752-1824) with kings, politicians, diplomats and European writers. The letters of this French educated lady, who was Prussian from her origin and spent a large part of her life in Italy, reveal on her perception of the world of whose realities she speaks from day to day. The aim of this study is to analyse how in the everyday practice of writing, the countess of Albany offers an image of herself elaborated in an attitude of introspection expressed in French as lingua franca, language of private life par excellence.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
