How linguistics can help the historian
Erschienen am 4. Mai 2021
978-1-911479-70-3 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
It is often thought that linguistics has to be very technical and complicated (it doesn't), as well as boring (it needn't be).
In fact, linguistics can often finesse hard information out of historical documents in a manner that is just as striking and revealing-and just as scientific and objective-as the way in which archaeology helps us to interpret historical artefacts. The process involves looking beyond what is expressed in such a document to the question of how it is expressed; this exposition looks in simple terms at some specific examples that relate to early medieval Ireland, Britain and the Continent.
This deliberately informal exposition originated in a 2012 address given at NUI Galway in response to an invitation from the students of that university's Cumann Staire. A version was delivered the following year in Dublin to a workshop of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
It is essential reading for any student of history.
In fact, linguistics can often finesse hard information out of historical documents in a manner that is just as striking and revealing-and just as scientific and objective-as the way in which archaeology helps us to interpret historical artefacts. The process involves looking beyond what is expressed in such a document to the question of how it is expressed; this exposition looks in simple terms at some specific examples that relate to early medieval Ireland, Britain and the Continent.
This deliberately informal exposition originated in a 2012 address given at NUI Galway in response to an invitation from the students of that university's Cumann Staire. A version was delivered the following year in Dublin to a workshop of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
It is essential reading for any student of history.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Dublin
Irland
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
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0,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911479-70-3 (9781911479703)
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Dr Anthony Harvey is Editor of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS) and Project Leader of the St Patrick's Confessio Hyperstack activity (www.confessio.ie). He has been part of the DMLCS project since 1985 and Editor since 1990.
