Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early Middle Ages / / Bonnie Effros

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780246703321
• Autore: Effros Bonnie <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-35670-4; 9786612356704; 0-520-92818-0; 1-59734-743-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 272 pages) : illustrations, map
• Collana: The transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 35
• Disciplina: 393.9/09364
• Soggetti: Merovingians - Funeral customs and rites; Funeral rites and ceremonies - Gaul; Gaul Social life and customs; Gaul Antiquities; France History To 987
• 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 (p. 223-262) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Map and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Antiquaries, historians, and archaeologists: creating a cultural context for early medieval graves -- 2. Modern Assessments of Merovingian Burial -- 3. Grave goods and the ritual expression of identity -- 4. The visual landscape: Cemeterial topography and community hierarchy -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and ; prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years.

English in Cyprus or Cyprus English : an empirical investigation of variety status / / Sarah Buschfeld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910954557203321
• Autore: Buschfeld Sarah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013
• ISBN: 9789027272171; 9027272174
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Collana: Varieties of English around the world, , 0172-7362 ; ; v. G46
• Disciplina: 420.9/051
• Soggetti: English language - Dialects - Cyprus; English language - Foreign countries; Greek language - Influence on English; Turkish language - Influence on English; Sociolinguistics - Cyprus; Cyprus Languages
• 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: English in Cyprus or Cyprus English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures and charts -- List of maps and pictures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation for the research project -- 1.2 Scientific aims of the study -- 1.3 Theoretical framework -- 1.4 Methodological framework -- 1.5 Outline -- Chapter 2. English in Cyprus -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Historical background -- 2.2.1 From the first settlements to the British occupation -- 2.2.2 British rule in Cyprus -- 2.2.3 Post-independence, Turkish invasion, and after -- 2.3 Identity constructions -- 2.3.1 Resistance against foreign domination and British rule -- 2.3.2 The Turkish invasion as "Event X"? -- 2.4 Sociolinguistic conditions -- 2.4.1 Language use -- 2.4.2 Language attitudes -- 2.5 Summary and preliminary conclusions -- Chapter 3. World Englishes research and the case of Cyprus -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 30 years of World Englishes research -- 3.2.1 The ENL-ESL-EFL distinction -- 3.2.2 Kachru's (1985b) Three Concentric Circles of World Englishes -- 3.2.3 Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model -- 3.2.4 ; Terminology -- 3.3 Research into English in Cyprus/Cyprus English -- 3.4 Learner Englishes vs. second-language varieties? -- 3.4.1 Learner English and interlanguage -- 3.4.2 Second-language varieties -- 3.4.3 "Bridging the paradigm gap" -- 3.4.4 Drawing some theoretical conclusions -- 3.5 Transfer and feature nativization: A crosslinguistic comparison of English and the Greek-Cypriot dialect -- 3.5.1 The nominal domain -- 3.5.2 The verbal domain -- 3.5.3 Prepositions -- 3.5.4 Hypotheses -- 3.6 Summary -- Chapter 4. Empirical study -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 CEDAR (Cyprus English Data Analysis and Research) -- 4.2.1 The interviews: Data collection -- 4.2.2 Participants -- 4.3 Data transcription -- 4.4 Summary.; Chapter 5. Identifying characteristics of EiCy/CyE -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Methodology -- 5.3 Results -- 5.3.1 Phonological features -- 5.3.2 Morphosyntactic features -- 5.3.3 Lexical features -- 5.3.4 Lexicogrammatical features -- 5.3.5 Lexicosemantic feature -- 5.3.6 Pragmatic features -- 5.4 Summary -- Chapter 6. Linguistic characteristics of EiCy/CyE -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Methodology -- 6.2.1 Feature selection -- 6.2.2 Data coding -- 6.2.3 Frequency counts and data analysis -- 6.3 Results -- 6.3.1 The morphosyntactic domain -- 6.3.2 The lexicogrammatical domain -- 6.3.3 The lexicosemantic domain -- 6.3.4 Summary and discussion -- 6.3.5 Statistical test for intergenerational differences -- 6.4 Summary -- Chapter 7. Assessing the variety status of EiCy/CyE -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 EiCy/CyE: Second-language variety or learner English? -- 7.2.1 Spread of bilingualism and expansion in function -- 7.2.2 Nativization of linguistic structures -- 7.2.3 Institutionalization -- 7.2.4 Ways of language acquisition -- 7.2.5 EiCy/CyE - a hybrid case -- 7.3 Placing EiCy/CyE on the map of World Englishes research -- 7.3.1 EiCy/CyE, the ENL-ESL-EFL distinction, and Kachru's (1985b) Three Concentric Circles -- 7.3.2 EiCy/CyE in Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model -- 7.4 Summary -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- I. Questionnaire language attitudes and use -- II. Interview guidelines -- II.1 Question set "adults" -- II.2 Question set "high school students" -- III. Supplementary questionnaire -- IV. Participants -- V. Excerpt sample transcript -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been discussed systematically within the framework of World Englishes. To determine whether English in Cyprus has second-language variety status or should rather be considered as learner English, the monograph investigates its historical, sociopolitical and sociolinguistic background and, drawing on a corpus of