@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/hl.15.3.02sca, author = "Scaglione, Aldo", title = "The Nature and Virtues of the German Language in the Bavarian Periodical ‘Parnassus Boicus’ (1722-1740)", journal= "Historiographia Linguistica", year = "1988", volume = "15", number = "3", pages = "331-347", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.15.3.02sca", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/hl.15.3.02sca", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0302-5160", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "SUMMARYA close analysis of the Bavarian periodical Parnassus Boicus (1722-1740) discloses several aspects of interest to the linguistic historian. Besides a polemical and proto-nationalistic view of German as a language for heroes, the editors defended, against the French-oriented critical stance à la Gottsched which was-beginning to have the upper hand, a marked sympathy for periodic syntax, which they claimed as most natural to German, as well as a strong preference for the chancery style.RÉSUMÉQuand on analyse de près le périodique Bavarois Parnassus Boicus (1722-1740) on remarque des aspects de theorie du langage et du style qui devraient interesser l'historien de la langue et de la linguistique. En polemi-que contre la position francophile de Gottsched, qui commençait a s'impo-ser en Allemagne, les redacteurs defendaient ce qu'ils concevoient comme le style le plus naturel a la langue allemande, c'est-a-dire la phrase periodique et le style bureaucratique des chancelleries. A leur avis, l'allemand etait par sa nature et par sa tradition une langue faite pour des heros.", }