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‘These four letters s o l a are not there’: language and theology in Luther’s translation of the New Testament
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The development of education and Grammatica in Medieval Iceland
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L2 immersion causes non-native-like L1 pronunciation in German attriters
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Semantic field of ANGER in Old English
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This thesis examines representations of ANGER in Old English by analysing occurrences of eight word families (YRRE, GRAM, BELGAN, WRĀÞ, HĀTHEORT, TORN, WĒAMŌD and WŌD) in prose and poetry. Through inspection of 1800 tokens across c. 400 texts, it determines the understanding of how ANGER vocabulary operates in the Old English lexicon and within the broader socio-cultural context of the period. It also helps refine the interpretations of wide-ranging issues such as authorial preference, translation practices, genre, and interpretation of literary texts. The thesis contributes to diachronic lexical semantics and the history of emotions by developing a replicable methodology that triangulates data from different sources. Chapter 1 introduces the field of study and shows the approaches to emotions as either universal or culturally-determined. It discusses previous analyses of ANGER in Old English and proposes a cross-linguistic, semasiological approach, which minimises ethnocentric bias. Categorisations and conceptualisations are not identical between languages, and Old English divides the emotional spectrum differently from Present-Day English. Chapter 2 presents the methodology, which draws on approaches from historical semantics and corpus linguistics, integrating methods from cognitive linguistics, anthropology and textual studies. Chapters 3 to 10 investigate each of the eight word families, analysing all occurrences in relation to grammatical category, collocations, range of meanings, and referents. Cognates in Germanic and other Indo-European languages, and Middle English and Early Modern English reflexes are examined to trace diachronic development. The thesis determines recurrent patterns of usage, distribution between text types, and socio-cultural significance. Specific passages from Old English from a range of genres are analysed and discussed. Each family is found to have a distinct profile of usage and distribution. Chapter 11 examines ANGER in the Old English translation of Gregory’s Regula pastoralis. This text exhibits usage not found in later prose or in poetry. The Cura pastoralis also presents a different framework for understanding and conceptualising ANGER to the one found in Latin. Finally, Chapter 12 synthesises my findings and considers them comparatively. These word families differ in usage, conceptual links, referents, and even authorial preferences. Most common portrayals of ANGER in Old English involve one of the three themes: ANGER AS VICE, WRATH OF GOD and ANGER AS HOSTILITY. The thesis demonstrates that a detailed analysis of lexical usage is essential for understanding larger conceptual structures within a language, and that this in turn aids the analysis of literary texts and understanding of Anglo-Saxon psychologies.
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P Philology. Linguistics; PD Germanic languages; PE English; PF West Germanic; PR English literature
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URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6227/13/2015izdebskaphd.pdf
https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b3108653
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6227/
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Formal variation and semantic change in the Middle English demonstratives
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Modelling the syntax-discourse interface: a syntactic analysis of "please"
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An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin
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Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English
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What did the French Revolutionaries ever do for us? (The benefits of bilingualism in education and culture)
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Resisting a culture ‘in-between’, or: what did Erich Fried learn from Dylan Thomas?
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Translating German novellas into English: A comparative study
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On the Neutralizing Status of Truncation in Intonation: A Perception Study of Boundary Tones in German and Russian
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Disambiguating the Scope of Negation by Prosodic Cues in Three Varieties of German
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The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought: Volume 3: Aesthetics and Literature
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Changing conventions in German causal clause complexes: A diachronic corpus study of translated and non-translated business articles
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The lexical effects of Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contact on Old English
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