28.3597, Books: Codeswitching in the Irish-Latin Leabhar Breac: Horst

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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:28:15
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Codeswitching in the Irish-Latin Leabhar Breac: Horst

Title: Codeswitching in the Irish-Latin Leabhar Breac 
Subtitle: Mediaeval homiletic Culture 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/codeswitching-in-the-irish-latin-leabhar-breac 

Author: Tom ter Horst

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932342 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

An Leabhar Breac ('The Speckled Book'; c.1410) is a manuscript containing a
collection of mostly religious material in both Latin and Irish, now housed in
Dublin at the Royal Irish Academy. The present publication explores the
make-up of the manuscript, focusing on the question which languages are used
where and for which texts, and singling out individual texts which use a
combination of languages within the same speech act, a process called
codeswitching. Special attention is paid to the genre of the homily, a moral
commentary on religious themes. The use of Latin and Irish in such texts can
shed light on the intellectual culture of Ireland, an important centre of
learning in mediaeval Europe. The Leabhar Breac manuscript is a composite
piece of various sources, most of which date to about 1100, though some may be
dated as late as 1350. By studying the languages of these texts, one can
hypothesise about the languages and dates of their sources, and thus about the
availability and level of Latin learning in Irish intellectual society through
time. For this purpose it is important to study not only individual texts but
also the quires in which they occur. The hierarchy and juxtaposition of texts
and languages is an indication of their intended manner of composition, while
the level of compositional ability on the part of the author or scribe is a
reflection of bilingual education. Such a bilingual education can then be
compared to similar circumstances such as Latin-English sermons in England.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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