Bells Chiming from the Past

Cultural and Linguistic Studies on Early English
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2341-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 174, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

To understand the characteristics of present-day English language and culture we must have some understanding of the earlier stages of language use. Bells Chiming from the Past investigates the early development of English and covers different aspects of English medieval studies, from traditional philological concerns, to the most recent perspectives of modern linguistics applied to early English texts. Most of the papers are based on empirical research in English Historical Linguistics, and will contribute substantially to our theoretical and descriptive understanding of English varieties, both written and spoken.
The book focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and culture during the Middle English period. Some of the articles are clearly linguistically-oriented, but most could be included under a wider philological perspective since they study both language and the cultural milieu in which linguistic events took place.
Bells Chiming from the Past is aimed at an international readership and makes a desirable addition to the field of Historical Linguistics, featuring as it does contributions from an array of well-known professionals from different academic and scientific institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Moskowich-Spiegel, Isabel

Crespo-García, Begoña

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Isabel MOSKOWICH and Begoña CRESPO: Introduction
Part 1. Linguistic aspects of early English
Agnieszka PYSZ: The (im)possibility of stacking adjectives in Early English
Ruth CARROLL: Lists in Letters: NP-lists and general extenders in Early English correspondence
Prancisco ALONSO-ALMEIDA: Middle English medical books as examples of discourse colonies: G.U.L Hunter 307
Rosa Eva FERNÁNDEZ-CONDE: The second-person pronoun in late medieval English drama: The York Cycle (c. 1440)
Isabel MOSKOWICH and Begoña CRESPO: Different paths for words and money: The semantic field of “Commerce and Finance” in Middle English
Part 2. Language and culture
John McKINNELL: How might Everyman has been performed?
Isabel de la CRUZ-CABANILLAS: Shift of meaning in the animal field: Some cases of narrowing and widening
María José ESTEVE-RAMOS: Different aspects of the specialised nomenclature of ophthalmology in Old and Middle English
Nuria BELLO-PIÑÓN and Dolores Elvira MÉNDEZ-SOUTO: Complex predicates in early scientific writing
Mª Victoria DOMÍNGUEZ-RODRÍGUEZ and Alicia RODRÍGUEZ-ÁLVAREZ: Sixteenth-century glosses to a fifteenth-century gynaecological treatise (BL, MS Sloane 249, ff. 180v-205v): A scientifically biased revision
Part 3. Philology and the study of medieval texts
Donald SCRAGG: Rewriting eleventh-century English grammar and the editing of texts
Francisco José ÁLVAREZ-LÓPEZ: DCL, B IV, 24: A palaeographical and codicological study of Durham’s Cantor’s Book
Nils-Lennart JOHANNESSON: The four-wheeled quadriga and the seven sacraments: On the sources for the ‘dedication’ of the Ormulum
Juan Camilo CONDE-SILVESTRE: Verbal confrontation and the uses of direct speech in some Old English poetic hagiographies
Tom SHIPPEY: Tolkien, medievalism, and the philological tradition

Über Autor(innen)

Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel teaches history of the English language since 1989 in the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña (Spain).

Begoña Crespo García is a Lecturer at the University of A Coruña (Spain).