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Entre la force d’intercourse et l’esprit de clocher : l’intercompréhension en langues romanes comme outil théorico-méthodologique pour l’enseignement et l’apprentissage de l’ancien français
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Between the “force d’intercourse” and the “esprit de clocher”: Intercomprehension in Romance languages as a theoretical-methodological tool for teaching and learning Old French
Abstract: This article aims to examine the bases that Romance linguistics can provide for language didactics, while mobilizing the potential of intercomprehension (mutual intelligibility) between parent languages. Firstly, we review the process by which modern Romance languages developed from the continuum of vernaculars during the Middle Ages. Secondly, we present intercomprehension, an ancestral practice that has been developed as a didactic approach in recent years. These elements then enable us to sketch out a theoretical-methodological crossroads that propose the reading of Old French texts through comparison and help from current Romance languages. In addition, we examine a sample of lexical examples from the Vie de Saint Alexis, one of the earliest literary attestations in the Gallo-Roman area, to illustrate the relationship between Old French and each of the other languages of the neolatin family. In this way, we hope to highlight the potential of our approach in a perspective of plural and integrated language education. In this way, the implementation of this approach can transform an Old French course into a lesson in Romance linguistics.
Keywords: Intercomprehension, old French, history of language, metalinguistic reflection
Citation suggestion: Calvo del Olmo, Francisco. “Entre la force d’intercourse et l’esprit de clocher : l’intercompréhension en langues romanes comme outil théorico-méthodologique pour l’enseignement et l’apprentissage de l’ancien français”. Transilvania, no. 9(2025): 17-25.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2025.9.03.
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