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Freond ic gemete wið

2013-07-26 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2013-07-26
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Book Synopsis Freond ic gemete wið by : Helena Filipová

Download or read book Freond ic gemete wið written by Helena Filipová. This book was released on 2013-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freond ic gemete wið: Perspectives on Medieval Britain; Language, Literature, Society is the outcome of a symposium convened at Charles University in Prague in March 2012. It offers a mosaic of perspectives on medieval Britain represented by detailed and closely focused analyses of individual aspects of linguistic, literary and socio-cultural practice from the early Anglo-Saxon period to the late Middle Ages. The contributions in the field of linguistics are concerned with the problematics of identifying and interpreting the imprint of diverse linguistic communities and the dynamics of language change on textual material, addressing issues of methodology and the interpretive models of contemporary scholarship. The chapters on literature and cultural studies present new readings in canonical texts as well as interpreting neglected or marginal material. The predominant perspective emphasizes the broadly conceived foundational and/or normative character of the narratives, establishing an imagined community with the text at its centre or offering an authoritative model for an existing or emergent social structure or polity.

Written Reliquaries

2006-12-20 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2006-12-20
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Book Synopsis Written Reliquaries by : Leslie K. Arnovick

Download or read book Written Reliquaries written by Leslie K. Arnovick. This book was released on 2006-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making promises, quoting proverbs, pronouncing curses, speaking gibberish, praying Pater Nosters, invoking saints, and keeping silence. The study of their resonance is enabled by a methodological conjunction of historical pragmatics and oral theory. Insights from oral theory enlighten spoken traditions which in turn may be understood in the larger historical-pragmatic context of linguistic performance. The inquiry ranges across broad as well as narrow planes of reference to trace a complex set of cultural and linguistic interactions. In this way it reconstructs relevant discursive contexts, giving detailed accounts of underlying assumptions, traditions, and conventions. Doing so, the book demonstrates that an integrated methodology not only allows access to oral discourse in both Old English and Middle English but also provides insight into the fluid medieval interchange of literacy and orality.

Anglo-Saxon Magic

2013-11-21 History
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Release : 2013-11-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon Magic by : Godfrid Storms

Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Magic written by Godfrid Storms. This book was released on 2013-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of American Folklore

1908 Folklore
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Release : 1908
Genre : Folklore
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The Cambridge History of the English Language

1992-07-31 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 1992-07-31
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of the English Language by : Richard M. Hogg

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the English Language written by Richard M. Hogg. This book was released on 1992-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a full account of the history of English. Its authoritative coverage extends from areas of central linguistic interest and concern to more specialised topics such as personal and place names. The volumes dealing with earlier periods are chronologically based, whilst those dealing with more recent periods are geographically based, thus reflecting the spread of English over the last 300 years. Volume 1 deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest, and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialectology, onomastics, and literary language. Each chapter, as well as giving a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic theory on the interpretation of the data. The chapters have been written with both specialists and non-specialists in mind; they will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of English.

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