
Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England : A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö.
Title:
Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England : A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö.
Author:
Hall, Alaric.
ISBN:
9789047444619
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Series:
The Northern World ; v.48
The Northern World
Contents:
Introduction (Alaric Hall, Olga Timofeeva, Ágnes Kiricsi and Bethany Fox) -- Anglo-Latin Bilingualism before 1066: Prospects and Limitations (Olga Timofeeva) -- Interlinguistic Communication in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Alaric Hall) -- Quae non habet intellectum: The Disappearance of Fifth-Foot Spondees from Dactylic Hexameter Verse (Seppo Heikkinen) -- The Representations of Emotions Connected to Dreams and Visions in Pre-Carolingian Continental and Anglo-Latin narratives (Jesse Keskiaho) -- The Kirkdale Dedication Inscription and its Latin Models: romanitas in late Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire (John Blair) -- Linguistic Geography, Demography, and Monastic Community: Scribal Language at Bury St Edmunds (Kathryn A. Lowe) -- Sense and Sensibility: Old English Semantics and the Lexicographer's Point of View (Antonette diPaolo Healey) -- Spatial Understanding of Time in early Germanic Cultures: the Evidence of Old English Time Words and Norse Mythology (Lilla Kopár) -- The Development of the Basic Colour Terms of English (Carole P. Biggam) -- The Lexicon of Mind and Memory: Mood and Mind in Old and Middle English (Ágnes Kiricsi) -- Another Subordinator, An't Please You: A Diachronic Study of Conditional And (Alexandra Fodor) -- Translating Chaucer's Power Play into Modern English and Finnish (Mari Pakkala-Weckström) -- Index.
Abstract:
The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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