Mother and Other Tongues: Choices, Conflicts, Resistances
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Organizer Name
Mary Dzon
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Presider Name
Anne-Hélène Miller
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Paper Title 1
Images of Sanctity in Irish and Hiberno-Latin Hagiography
Presenter 1 Name
Máire Johnson
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Elizabethtown College
Paper Title 2
The Vulgar Body: On Translating Nakedness
Presenter 2 Name
Jeanette Patterson
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Virginia
Paper Title 3
Relocating Troy: The Interplay of Galician and Castilian within Iberian Trojan Matter
Presenter 3 Name
Clara Pascual-Argente
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Rhodes College
Paper Title 4
"En verso lemosin escritas": Language and Identity in the First Spanish Translation of Ausiàs March's Poems (1539)
Presenter 4 Name
Leonardo Francalanci
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame
Start Date
15-5-2015 1:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 212
Description
This session is concerned with linguistic options medieval authors or scribes may have had with respect to choosing their language of expression, vis-à-vis in particular, but not limited to, the usage of the mother tongue. The growing use of vernacular languages towards the end of the Middle Ages became a source of reflection, sometimes explicitly, regarding their status, forms, spheres of usage or one’s sense of belonging and identity. The choices that were made could have political, cultural, intellectual, territorial, gendered, or religious implications. We welcome papers that address any of these issues including aspects of language shifting or language contact phenomena, territorialization, diglossy, as well as discussions of linguistic minorities, or surprising/questionable linguistic choices made by authors in particular contexts. Approaches could include subjects of conflicts, structures of domination, or resistance to any form of cultural linguistic imposition.
Mary Dzon
Mother and Other Tongues: Choices, Conflicts, Resistances
Bernhard 212
This session is concerned with linguistic options medieval authors or scribes may have had with respect to choosing their language of expression, vis-à-vis in particular, but not limited to, the usage of the mother tongue. The growing use of vernacular languages towards the end of the Middle Ages became a source of reflection, sometimes explicitly, regarding their status, forms, spheres of usage or one’s sense of belonging and identity. The choices that were made could have political, cultural, intellectual, territorial, gendered, or religious implications. We welcome papers that address any of these issues including aspects of language shifting or language contact phenomena, territorialization, diglossy, as well as discussions of linguistic minorities, or surprising/questionable linguistic choices made by authors in particular contexts. Approaches could include subjects of conflicts, structures of domination, or resistance to any form of cultural linguistic imposition.
Mary Dzon