Pragmatics and Proverbs of the Medieval North: Understanding Speech Acts in Medieval Literature
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Alexander Ames
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of South Carolina-Columbia
Presider Name
Eric Bryan
Presider Affiliation
Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology
Paper Title 1
Trollish Pragmatics in the Hrafnistumannasögur
Presenter 1 Name
Michael S. Nagy
Presenter 1 Affiliation
South Dakota State Univ.
Paper Title 2
Hwæt as Discourse Marker in Old English Literature
Presenter 2 Name
Toby R. Beeny
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Indian River State College
Paper Title 3
Instances of Cooperation in the Alliterative English Debate Tradition
Presenter 3 Name
Alexander Ames
Start Date
11-5-2018 1:30 PM
Session Location
Valley 2 Harvey 204
Description
This burgeoning trend in Medieval Studies of the linguistic study of pragmatic meaning seeks to understand utterances within works of Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, and other medieval literatures should accrue momentum with the forthcoming publication, by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, of Pragmatics and Proverbs of the Medieval North: Essays on Medieval Literary Speech Acts, followed by the subheading Inspired by the Works of Thomas A. Shippey (Eds. Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames). That volume not only honors Professor Shippey’s groundbreaking work in this field but expands its reach to provide a platform for its expansion through examinations of a greater range of texts and contexts. The proposed session of papers, therefore, seeks to build on the work of that volume to promote and further nuance the application of pragmatic linguistic methodologies to medieval literary and/or historical texts, with priority to be given to those papers employing pragmatics to better understand those verbal conflicts and sententious statements on which such texts rely for their rich range of meanings.
Alexander Ames
Pragmatics and Proverbs of the Medieval North: Understanding Speech Acts in Medieval Literature
Valley 2 Harvey 204
This burgeoning trend in Medieval Studies of the linguistic study of pragmatic meaning seeks to understand utterances within works of Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, and other medieval literatures should accrue momentum with the forthcoming publication, by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, of Pragmatics and Proverbs of the Medieval North: Essays on Medieval Literary Speech Acts, followed by the subheading Inspired by the Works of Thomas A. Shippey (Eds. Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames). That volume not only honors Professor Shippey’s groundbreaking work in this field but expands its reach to provide a platform for its expansion through examinations of a greater range of texts and contexts. The proposed session of papers, therefore, seeks to build on the work of that volume to promote and further nuance the application of pragmatic linguistic methodologies to medieval literary and/or historical texts, with priority to be given to those papers employing pragmatics to better understand those verbal conflicts and sententious statements on which such texts rely for their rich range of meanings.
Alexander Ames