33.2904, Calls: Historical Linguistics / Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes (Jrnl)

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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:54:19
From: Elise Louviot [elise.louviot at univ-reims.fr]
Subject: Historical Linguistics / Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2022 

Call for Papers:

The Languages of Medieval England

The French Journal of Medieval English Studies Études Médiévales Anglaises is
seeking submissions for its 102nd issue focusing on “the Languages of Medieval
England”. The papers, written in French or English, should be submitted to
Elise Louviot by December 15th, 2022 (see more information below). Authors who
wish to submit a paper are advised to get in touch and submit a title with a
brief description of content as soon as convenient.
It is a well-known fact that Medieval England, like most places at any given
time in human history, was multilingual. The languages of Medieval England are
many: Brittonic, Latin, English, Old Norse and French, to name but the most
important, and each item on that list can be further subdivided into several
varieties (along geographical, but also sociological & stylistic lines).
Examining the languages of Medieval England requires us to think of how they
interacted and related to each other, from a number of perspectives.
>From a sociolinguistic perspective, it is worth investigating the respective
statuses of these languages. Who used them? For what purposes? What was the
meaning of using a certain language in this or that context? For instance, the
broad lines of the interplay between English and Latin throughout the period
are well-known: Old English gradually challenged the dominant status of Latin
as the official written language; the Conquest re-instated Latin in its
dominant position and that dominance gradually eroded in favour of English
once again over time. However, a closer look shows that the evolution is
neither universal nor straightforward. Ingrid Ivarsen’s work on Anglo-Saxon
legislation, for instance, reveals a much more complex evolution, from an
initial multilingualism partly obscured by later transmission, through a
mostly monolingual English phase under the reign of Alfred, to a newly
multilingual period, where Wulfstan of York once again makes use of Latin
(Ivarsen 2021).
Multilingualism can also be examined in terms of language contact. How much
did the languages of medieval England influence each other? Which parts of the
language were more readily influenced and to what extent is it possible to
trace the paths taken by linguistic innovations spurred on by language
contact? In many general descriptions of the History of the English language,
French is assumed to be the language of the upper class and to have exerted an
influence especially on areas connected to an aristocratic lifestyle. However,
recent studies have demonstrated the influence of French vocabulary in various
occupational domains, proving that “French evidently exerted influence not
only on the language of social elite pursuits, but also on that of the
technology relating to everyday occupations” (Ingham, Sylvester & Marcus,
2019).
The materiality of the languages of medieval England is also worth examining.
To what extent does the language of coins and inscribed objects differ from
language preserved on parchment? Why use runes on parchment? How different are
scribal practices from one language to another? Which conventions of writing
can be said to be language-independent (see for instance Laura Wright’s work
on abbreviations in business writings, 2011)?
For this issue of Études Médiévales Anglaises, we welcome papers on all
aspects of linguistic diversity in Medieval England. 

The papers, written in English or in French, must be sent before December
15th, 2022 to Elise Louviot (elise.louviot at univ-reims.fr). Études Médiévales
Anglaises uses double-blind peer review. The stylesheet to be used may be
found on our website: https://amaes.jimdo.com/submit-a-paper/ 
All papers published with us are made open access after a two-year embargo and
indexed by the MLA bibliography. You




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