IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2203: Changing Winds and Great Storms: The Dynamics of Speech Communities and Forms of Their Linguistic Self-Expression in the Eastern Mediterranean, 324-1204, IV - Communities and Communication, Conceptualising Linguistic Diversity, and Self-Expression
Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | National Science Centre, Poland, Warszawa / Uniwersytet Warszawski / Jacksonville State University, Florida / Oxford Centre for Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford |
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| Organisers: | Mirela Ivanova, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Paweł Nowakowski, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ekaterini Mitsiou, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien |
| Paper 2203-a | 'Communities of Linguistic Sensitivities' in Late Antique Christianity (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 2203-b | Greek in the Early Medieval Balkans (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | The session focuses on various ways in which late antique and early medieval communities and representatives of literary elites conceptualized their own and someone else's languages, explored new form of communication derived from their religious experiences and ideas, and involved language differences and their own language-related socio-cultural stereotypes into the process of constructing and negotiating their specific ethnic, regional, confessional, and social identities. The papers investigate the development of Christian views on linguistic diversity, divine languages, and the phenomenon of glossolalia, as well as the cultural importance of Greek in the early Medieval Balkans. |