CONGRESS CANCELED Medieval Speech Acts
Description
The study of medieval speech acts and pragmatic meaning offers a valuable, innovative tool to longstanding interests in the medieval world, including explorations of gender, race, cultural development, religious change, legal history, and more. Over the last two decades, linguists have produced a remarkable amount of scholarship dedicated to the advancement historical pragmatics, with much of this recent work focusing on literary and historical texts produced prior to 1700, including important studies in Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, Middle High German, and the History of English.
The papers in this session will address these matters in Old Norse, Middle English, and Middle Scots sources.
Eric Shane Bryan
CONGRESS CANCELED Medieval Speech Acts
Schneider 1355
The study of medieval speech acts and pragmatic meaning offers a valuable, innovative tool to longstanding interests in the medieval world, including explorations of gender, race, cultural development, religious change, legal history, and more. Over the last two decades, linguists have produced a remarkable amount of scholarship dedicated to the advancement historical pragmatics, with much of this recent work focusing on literary and historical texts produced prior to 1700, including important studies in Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, Middle High German, and the History of English.
The papers in this session will address these matters in Old Norse, Middle English, and Middle Scots sources.
Eric Shane Bryan