Linguistics In The Middle Ages

Author : Vivien A. Law
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276872

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History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages by Vivien A. Law Pdf

Surveys of linguistics in the Middle Ages often begin with the twelfth century, dismissing the preceding six centuries as 'devoid of originality' or 'dependent upon Donatus and Priscian'. This collection of articles devoted to linguistics in the early Middle Ages attempts to redress the balance by presenting a variety of approaches to new and controversial questions. The volume opens with a study of the historiography of early medieval grammar, with a bibliography of primary and secondary literature. The history of linguistic doctrine is discussed in articles dealing with Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, with the Irish contribution to the analysis of Latin, and with the Carolingian grammarians. A paper discussing a grammar from late Anglo-Saxon England (Beatus quid est) offers new insights into pedagogical techniques and the integration of literary texts into grammar teaching. The attitudes towards varieties of Latin in late antique and early medieval grammars are discussed in a wider context of cultural history. Finally, the volume includes two articles on the transmission of the grammars of the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages (Priscian and Dynamius).

Author : Vivien Law
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521565324

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The History of Linguistics in Europe by Vivien Law Pdf

This authoritative and wide-ranging book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. Some of today's burning questions about language date back a long way: in 1400 BC Plato was asking how words relate to reality. Other questions go back just a few generations, such as our interest in the mechanisms of language change, or in the social factors that shape the way we speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect changing modes of thinking. A survey chapter brings the coverage of the book up to the present day. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources and the qualities the historian of linguistics needs to develop, provide the reader with the tools to go further.

Author : Khalil I. Semaan
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Linguistics in the Middle Ages by Khalil I. Semaan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004375765

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Law and Language in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.

Author : Giulio C. Lepschy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317895275

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History of Linguistics Volume II by Giulio C. Lepschy Pdf

This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods. Volume Two examines the Greek, Roman and Medieval European traditions, which between them developed the grammatical and syntactical models which form the basis of our inherited linguistic assumptions.

Author : Richard William Hunt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027208965

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Teils by Richard William Hunt Pdf

This volume brings together a number of papers written by R. W. Hunt (1908-1979) on the history of grammar in the Middle Ages. The importance of these papers lies almost as much in the spark of scholarly investigation that they have inspired, as in their contribution to original research. The first three studies in this collection deal with the change in grammatical doctrine that took place in the late 11th and 12th centuries and from which all subsequent developments during the creative period of medieval grammatical speculation derive. The fourth paper deals with a problem that concerns all students of the medieval liberal arts: the unity of learning, as opposed to the present-day compartmentalisation of studies. The remaining three studies deal with the textual materials available to the medieval student of grammar.

Author : Jesse Gellrich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501740718

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages by Jesse Gellrich Pdf

This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.

Author : Mark Amsler
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789048550166

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The Medieval Life of Language by Mark Amsler Pdf

The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon's sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer's poetry, inquisitors' accounts of heretic speech, and life writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191555688

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English in the Middle Ages by Tim William Machan Pdf

"Professor Machan explores for the first time fully a new dimension in the understanding of the role of the English language in medieval England. He is rigorous and sceptical in his examination of assumptions that have come to be too easily accepted - about the rise of 'standard' English, about 'linguistic nationalism', about the role of Lollardy in fostering the vernacular, about the intrinsic funniness of regional dialects. He uses literary texts well, and offers, from his particular linguistic vantage-point, new and compelling interpretations of the dialect northernisms in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale and of the subtleties of the 'sociolect' of courtly love-conversation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.. Derek Pearsall , Harvard University What did people in England in the Middle Ages think about language? What was their view of English, French, and Latin, and how did this influence the way they communicated? This book uses these questions as a basis for a ground-breaking investigation into the use and status of the English language in medieval England. Professor Machan suggests that many linguistic, literary, and historical considerations of medieval statements on language have significantly failed to take into account the social and linguistic contexts of their production. In this volume he explores not only medieval ideas about language but also the discursive traditions which generated them. English in the Middle Ages draws upon a wide range of documentary evidence, including most notably the royal letters issued in 1258 prior to the Barons' War. The author also analyses the language spoken by Chaucer's pilgrims, the conversations in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', and many other chronicles, poems, and commentaries. The book concludes with a consideration of the post-medieval history of the status of English in law, literature, and education. The book will interest scholars from a range of disciplines - particularly linguistics, literature, and history - and is written in clear, non-technical language.

Author : Vicente Lledó-Guillem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319720807

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The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times by Vicente Lledó-Guillem Pdf

The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that shaped national identities in the Iberian Peninsula and, consequently, neighboring areas of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. The innovative textual approach taken in these pages exposes the multifaceted ways in which the boundaries between the region’s most prestigious languages were contested, and demonstrates how linguistic identities were linked to ongoing struggles for political power. As the analysis reveals, the ideological construction of Occitan would play a crucial role in the construction of a unified Catalan, and Catalan would, in turn, give rise to a fervent debate around ‘Spanish’ language that has endured through the present day. This book will appeal to students and scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics, Catalan language and linguistics, anthropological linguistics, Early Modern literature and culture, and the history of the Mediterranean.

Author : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781903153475

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Language and Culture in Medieval Britain by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Pdf

The essays in this volume form a new cultural history focused round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the 11th to the later 15th century.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107058590

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Imagining Medieval English by Tim William Machan Pdf

Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. Leading scholars in the field explore conventional conceptualisations of medieval English, and consider possible alternatives and their implications for cultural as well as linguistic history. They explore not only the language's structural traits, but also the sociolinguistic and theoretical expectations that frame them and make them real. Spanning the period from 500 to 1500 and drawing on a wide range of examples, the chapters discuss topics such as medieval multilingualism, colloquial medieval English, standard and regional varieties, and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle English. Together, they argue that what medieval English is, depends, in part, on who's looking at it, how, when and why.

Author : Vivien Law
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040069240

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Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages by Vivien Law Pdf

Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages is the only book in this field which examines linguistics in the Middle Ages from the standpoint of both the medievalist and the historian of linguistics. Primary source material along with previously unpublished texts are used extensively with all foreign texts translated into English, and are listed in a useful bibliography to aid further study. Historical surveys, author studies and introductions to medieval grammatical terminology are also included to help clarify the historical context of the study. The volume will prove invaluable reading and an important reference work for those studying historical linguistics, for medieval and cultural historians, and to all who are interested in the intellectual life and literature of medieval Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004242135

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Logic and Language in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

This volume honours Sten Ebbesen with a series of essays on logical and linguistic analysis in the Middle Ages. Included are studies focusing on textual criticism, new finds of logical texts, and philosophical analysis and interpretation.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110471441

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Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the world. Multilingualism was, however, certainly rather common already, if not especially, in the premodern world. For some time now, research has started to explore this issue through a number of specialized studies. The present volume continues with the investigation of multilingualism through a collection of case studies focusing on important examples in medieval and early modern societies, that is, in linguistic and cultural contact zones, such as England, Spain, the Holy Land, but also the New World. As all contributors confirm, the numerous cases of multilingualism discussed here indicate strongly that the premodern period knew considerably less barriers between people of different social classes, cultural background, and religious orientation. But we also have to acknowledge that already then human communication could fail because of linguistic hurdles which prevented mutual understanding in religious and cultural terms.