IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1228: Linguistic Borderlands, Speaking about Boundaries, III: Scripts, Semantics, and Understanding
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Roderick McDonald, Independent Scholar, Sheffield Christine Wallis, School of English, University of Sheffield |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rachel Fletcher, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow |
Paper 1228-a | Bilingualism and Biscriptality in Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1228-b | Mind the Gap: An Interdisciplinary Historical Semantic Study of Terms for Early Medieval London (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1228-c | Glagolitic Script: Script as System of Medieval Symbols (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Mentalities, Philosophy |
Abstract | Script and text encode meaning at different levels. This panel looks at the ways that text, manuscript, and language function, and the way meaning can be bound in an array of contextual factors. Palumbo's paper is a sociolinguistic examination of blending of both Roman and runic script in medieval Scandinavian epigraphy, Stokeld compares the divergent semantics of the archaeological terms 'wic' and 'burh' with the Old English terms wic and burh, bringing the disciplines of archaeology and historical linguistics into dialogue, and Lukić examines Old Church Slavonic and the tripartite semiotics of the Glagolitic alphabet, where meaning is inscribed at multiple levels, including the symbolic. |