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Subject: 32.2782, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling & Literature, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:48:45
From: Krzysztof Nowak [krzysztof.nowak at ijp.pan.pl]
Subject: Crossing Metaphorical Boundaries: Transgression in Medieval Discourse (sessions at the IMC Leeds 2022)

 
Full Title: Crossing Metaphorical Boundaries: Transgression in Medieval Discourse (sessions at the IMC Leeds 2022) 

Date: 04-Jul-2022 - 07-Jul-2022
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Krzysztof Nowak
Meeting Email: krzysztof.nowak at ijp.pan.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The sessions that we propose are a follow-up to the ICM 2021 panels on
medieval metaphors of illness. As previously, we aim to provide a forum for
scholars to reflect on the variation and functions of metaphors in the writing
of the Middle Ages. We invite original contributions that critically examine
the role that metaphors played in medieval discourse. Although Medieval Latin
is taken as the point of departure, we welcome comparative analyses of
vernacular texts, including translations and adaptations.


Call for Papers:

Metaphors of transgression are ubiquitous in medieval discourse: we will
encounter them in legal texts, court records, sermons, theological treaties
and narrative and literary sources. Although often conventionalised and
formulaic, they are deeply rooted in the Bible and Patristic writing and as
such evoke a complex concept of an act in which the boundary between the
legal, the religious and the moral is blurred. Transgression is usually a sign
that a normative attitude is actively maintained in a community. The Latin
term transgressio may refer to both formal norms, such as law, and to informal
norms, such as social norms, mores, conventions and taboos. In the latter
case, the transgressive act is often the only occasion on which the existence
of norm makes itself felt.

The sessions that we propose are a follow-up to the ICM 2021 panels on
medieval metaphors of illness. As previously, we aim to provide a forum for
scholars to reflect on the variation and functions of metaphors in the writing
of the Middle Ages. We invite original contributions that critically examine
the role that metaphors played in medieval discourse. Although Medieval Latin
is taken as the point of departure, we welcome comparative analyses of
vernacular texts, including translations and adaptations.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
1. Expressing transgression
- How was transgression expressed in Medieval Latin (transgredi, praevaricare,
excedere, deviare etc.) and vernacular languages?
- Transgressionis contagio: how does one get infected with transgression or
complex and mixed metaphors.
- Hebr. עָבַר – Gr. παραβαίνω – Lat. transgredior: transgression in
translation.

2. What do transgressors actually transgress?
- Transgressio mandati: sin and religious norm
- Statuti transgressores: legal norms
- Metas scribendi transgredi: linguistic norms and norms of thought
- Trangressing informal norms: social rules, mores, conventions, taboos etc.

3. Medieval frame of trangression: norm – deviance – a deviant – sanction.

Contact E-mail:
krzysztof.nowak at ijp.pan.pl




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