Discourse Features of Anchoritic Texts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Anchoritic Society

Organizer Name

Michelle M. Sauer

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of North Dakota

Presider Name

Susannah Chewning

Presider Affiliation

Union County College

Paper Title 1

Carefully Choosing Words: Translation, Vocabulary, and Meaning in Middle English Anchoritic Texts

Presenter 1 Name

Jennifer N. Brown

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Marymount Manhattan College

Paper Title 2

Who Wants to Be Hugged? Discourse Features and Cognitive Processing of An Orison to God Almighty

Presenter 2 Name

Margaret Hostetler

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Paper Title 3

"Thais, Alone in the Darkness": Devotional Agency and Anchoritic Audiences in Marbod's Life of Thais

Presenter 3 Name

Alicia Smith

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Queen’s College, Univ. of Oxford

Paper Title 4

Devilish Play: Codeswitching and Style Shifting in the Ancrene Wisse

Presenter 4 Name

Donna Alfano Bussell

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Illinois-Springfield

Start Date

10-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 1060

Description

Given the turn to sociolinguistic approaches to history of the English language and historical pragmatics approaches to medieval texts, a panel focusing on how specific language issues affect reading and understanding the anchoritic texts could be quite successful. Any topics dealing with the connection between specific language features and the social or pragmatic context of the texts would be welcome—for example, the use of discourse markers, lexicalization or grammaticalization, pronoun usage, narratological issues and stance taking, interpellation/positioning of readers, etc. Michelle M. Sauer