Interfaces between language and culture in medieval England [[electronic resource] ] : a festschrift for Matti Kilpiö / / edited by Alaric Hall ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460338403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-95136-X; 9786612951367; 90-474-4461-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Collana: The Northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, , 1569-1462 ; ; v. 48
• Altri autori (Persone): HallAlaric; KilpiöMatti
• Disciplina: 429
• Soggetti: English philology - Old English, ca. 450-1100; English philology - Middle English, 1100-1500; Language and culture - England - History - To 1500; Languages in contact - England - History; Latin language, Medieval and modern - England; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Alaric Hall ... [et al.] -- Anglo-Latin bilingualism before 1066 : prospects and limitations / Olga Timofeeva -- Interlinguistic communication in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum / Alaric Hall -- Quae non habet intellectum : the disappearance of fifth-foot spondees from dactylic hexameter verse / Seppo Heikkinen -- The representations of emotions connected to dreams and visions in pre-Carolingian continental and Anglo-Latin narratives / Jesse Keskiaho -- The Kirkdale dedication inscription and its Latin models: romanitas in late Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire / John Blair -- Linguistic geography, demography, and monastic community : scribal language at Bury St Edmunds / Kathryn A. Lowe -- Sense and sensibility : Old English semantics and the lexicographer's point of view / Antoinette DiPaolo Healey -- Spatial understanding of time in early Germanic cultures: the ; evidence of Old English time words and Norse mythology / Lilla Kopár -- The development of the basic colour terms of English / Carole P. Biggam -- The lexicon of mind and memory : mood and mind in Old and Middle English / Agnes Kiricsi -- Another subordinator, an't please you : a diachronic study of conditional and / Alexandra Fodor -- Translating Chaucer's power play into Modern English and Finnish / Mari Pakkala-Weckström.
• Sommario/riassunto: The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.