Medieval Speech Acts
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Speech Act Society
Organizer Name
Eric S. Bryan
Organizer Affiliation
Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology
Presider Name
Alexander Vaughan Ames
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of South Carolina-Columbia
Paper Title 1
Speech Acts and the Construction of Dream-Visions
Presenter 1 Name
A. Arwen Taylor
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Arkansas Tech Univ.
Paper Title 2
Manuscript Genealogy and the Diachrony of Speech Acts in Icelandic Sagas
Presenter 2 Name
Eric S. Bryan
Paper Title 3
The Old English Beot in Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Romance: Heroic Modes of Speech in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Presenter 3 Name
Rebecca Richardson Mouser
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Missouri Southern State Univ.
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
Michael S. Nagy
Presenter 4 Affiliation
South Dakota State Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2019 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 208
Description
This session explores the function of speech acts and pragmatic linguistics in all eras, genres, and bodies of literature from the medieval period. Papers in this session will consider speech acts in Middle English dream-visions, Old Norse sagas, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the alliterative Morte Arthure. Eric Shane Bryan
Medieval Speech Acts
Bernhard 208
This session explores the function of speech acts and pragmatic linguistics in all eras, genres, and bodies of literature from the medieval period. Papers in this session will consider speech acts in Middle English dream-visions, Old Norse sagas, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the alliterative Morte Arthure. Eric Shane Bryan