Mixed-language dictionaries can be fascinating and often contain much more than you bargained for. It appears that virtually every endeavor produces at least a short compendium of specialized terms or turns of phrase. These nine essays examine a variety of dictionary/glossary forms from mixed-language sources, including one of specialized words from Chaucer's treatment of history and another detailing a dictionary based on Middle-English romances. Most of the entries examine dictionaries of words created by third parties. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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1 On historical dictionaries and language boundaries: Evidence from medieval mixed-language business writing |
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2 Boil vs. seethe in Middle English |
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3 Chaucer's historical present: A discourse-pragmatic perspective |
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4 Medieval French borrowings in the English `cakes' vocabulary: A historical semantic analysis |
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5 The predictable and the unpredictable: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the metres of Middle English romance |
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6 On some representations of Mary Magdalene in Middle English literature |
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7 "We make our wealth our god and turn our souls to paupers": Images of poverty and prosperity in Robert Henryson's Fables |
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8 Beowulf and Beowulf films, or: Fathers, sons, and monsters |
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9 The fairy needlewoman Emare -- A study of the Middle English romance Emare in the context of the tale of magic |
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Liliana Sikorska, PhD in 1994, D. Litt. in 1996, visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles; visiting professor at the American University, Washington DC, Fulbright Fellow at Cornell University; author and co-author of numerous books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Pozna (Poland). Marcin Krygier, PhD in 1993, D. Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, author and co-author of numerous books on Old and Middle English; head of the Department of the History of English at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna (Poland).
