scholarly journals A Strange Romance: Malin Kivelä, Du eller aldrig (2006) as a Case Study of Late Modern Multilingualism in Finland-Swedish Minority Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-176
Keyword(s):  
Minority Literature ◽  
Late Modern

Greening Religion in Facebook: Can Digital Media Bridge the Gap Between Religion and Modernity?

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-81
Author(s):  
Oriol Poveda
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Environmental Processes ◽  
Religion And Modernity ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Empirical Material

Through a case study of the Facebook page of a Jewish Orthodox environmental project based in Germany, this paper explores the ways in which religion and modernity might be made compatible and what role digital media plays in such interaction. On the basis of the empirical material gathered for this paper, the author presents a typology of religious-environmental processes of hybridization. The analysis draws from the concepts of multiple modernities, public religions and religious branding in order to discuss whether the combination of religion and modernity is enabled or compromised by the collapsing of boundaries between the public sphere and the marketplace in late modern societies. The findings suggest that Facebook and its affordances make possible the particular intersections of religion and environmentalism, of public sphere and marketplace, that are characteristic of the case under study.

Daily jottings: Preposition placement in English diaries and travel journals from 1500 to 1900

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Similar Frequency ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Preposition Stranding ◽  
Late Modern

Abstract This paper explores register variation in diaries and travel journals during the early and late Modern English periods (1500–1900), based on the case study of preposition placement, specifically preposition stranding (which I refer to) and preposition pied piping (to which I refer). Findings show that diaries and travel journals in general have a similar frequency of stranded and pied-piped prepositions, but that sharp differences emerge in their diachronic evolution. The trends suggest that the two registers generally follow the same historical drift towards oral styles previously observed in non-specialised registers, albeit at different rates and with only a moderately oral-like pattern in the nineteenth century. Also of note is that the frequency of stranded prepositions in diaries is lower than expected. I will argue that, although norms on ‘proper’ style and eighteenth-century prescriptive norms of ‘correct’ English play an important role, especially in the second half of the eighteenth century, one should also take into account register-specific characteristics such as the topic and purpose of the text, the setting in which it is produced (private/public), the participants involved and the production circumstances of the text. Likewise, idiolectal differences should not be underestimated, since they can on occasions skew results.

scholarly journals Charting orthographical reliability in a corpus of English historical letters

ICAME Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anni Sairio ◽  
Samuli Kaislaniemi ◽  
Anna Merikallio ◽  
Terttu Nevalainen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early English ◽  
English Spelling ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Bad Data ◽  
Range Of Variation ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract Research into orthography in the history of English is not a simple venture. The history of English spelling is primarily based on printed texts, which fail to capture the range of variation inherent in the language; many manuscript phenomena are simply not found in printed texts. Manuscript-based corpora would be the ideal research data, but as this is resource-intensive, linguists use editions that have been produced by non-linguists. Many editions claim to retain original spellings, but in practice text is always normalized at the graph level and possibly more so. This does not preclude using such a corpus for orthographical research, but there has been no systematic way to determine the philological reliability of an edited text. In this paper we present a typological methodology we are developing for the evaluation of orthographical quality of edition-based corpora, with the aim of making the best use of bad data in the context of editions and manuscript practices. As a case study, we apply this methodology to the Early Modern and Late Modern English sections of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence.

“The Emotions” in Biblical Anthropology? A Genealogy and Case Study with

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Michael Lasater
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Near East ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Biblical Anthropology ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Late Modern

In the late nineteenth century, the British writer Lewis Carroll published a nonsensical poem calledThe Hunting of the Snarkin which an unlikely alliance hunts a fictional animal, which Carroll named the “snark.” Despite the alliance's intense search for the snark and their questions about how to describe and classify it (apparently, “a Boojum”), they do not find it. I want to suggest that any effort to locate “emotions” in the Hebrew Bible or the ancient Near East is comparable to hunting the snark. If we want our hunt to be successful, we will turn away from “the emotions” and toward something more like the psychological taxonomy that the emotions displaced in the late-modern period: namely, the taxonomy of “passions and affections.” “The emotions” are simply not to be found in the Hebrew Bible or in the historical contexts behind its emergence.

scholarly journals Lexicalization and grammaticalization

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinne Van Rompaey ◽  
Kristin Davidse ◽  
Peter Petré
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Purpose Clauses ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

In this article we show that verbo-nominal expressions be on the/one’s way/road emerged as lexical composite predicates in Old English. These templates came to be elaborated by directional adjuncts, adjuncts describing states or events, and purpose clauses. In Late Modern English, the structure with a to-infinitive was functionally reinterpreted as a secondary auxiliary + lexical head, whose core sense is imminential aspect. On the basis of this case study, we develop a theoretical reflection on the differences between lexicalization and grammaticalization, as they emerge within a functional-constructional approach. On the syntagmatic axis, we adopt Boye & Harder’s (2007, 2012) principles for distinguishing lexicalized from grammaticalized uses on the basis of their having primary or secondary status in discourse usage. On the paradigmatic axis, we rethink the neo-Firthian distinction between lexis and grammar in diachronic terms. Individual lexical items are defined by their collocations (Sinclair 1991) and grammatical values by their systemic interdependencies (Halliday 1992). Lexicalization is then characterized by the development of distinctive collocational networks and grammaticalization by the acquisition of the defining interdependencies with values from related grammatical systems.

In order that – a data-driven study of symptoms and causes of obsolescence

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Rudnicka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Order ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Order Process ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Late Modern

Abstract This paper is an empirical case study of grammatical obsolescence in progress. The main variable of study is the English purpose subordinator in order that, which is shown to be steadily decreasing in its frequency of use, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century. This work applies a data-driven approach for the investigation and description of obsolescence, recently developed by Rudnicka, Karolina. 2019. The Statistics of obsolescence: Purpose subordinators in Late Modern English. NIHIN: New Ideas in Human Interaction: Studies. Freiburg: Rombach. The methodology combines philological analysis with statistical methods used on data acquired from mega-corpora. Moving from the description of possible symptoms of obsolescence to different causes for it, the paper aims at presenting a comprehensive account of the studied phenomenon. Interestingly, a very significant role in the decline of in order that can be ascribed to the so-called higher-order processes, understood as processes influencing the constructional level from above. Two kinds of higher-order processes are shown to play an important role, namely i) an externally-motivated higher-order process exemplified by the drastic socio-cultural changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ii) an internally-motivated higher-order process instantiated by the rise of the to-infinitive (rise of infinite clauses).

scholarly journals About text frequencies in historical linguistics: Disentangling environmental and grammatical change

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Grammatical Change ◽  
Late Modern

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the limitations of inferring grammar change from variable text frequencies in historical corpus data. We argue that fluctuating frequencies of grammatical variants in real time are a function not only of changing grammars but are also conditioned by what we call ‘environmental’ changes (for example, content changes) that affect the textual habitat. As a case study, we explore the English genitive alternation in the Late Modern English period and demonstrate that the English

scholarly journals Constructing and Contesting the Shrine: Tourist Performances at Seimei Shrine, Kyoto

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Mia Tillonen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Material Form

Japanese Shinto shrines are popular pilgrimage sites not only for religious reasons, but also because of their connections to popular culture. This study discusses how tourism is involved in the construction of the shrine space by focusing on the material environment of the shrine, visitor performances, and how the shrine is contested by different actors. The subject of the study, Seimei Shrine, is a shrine dedicated to the legendary figure Abe no Seimei (921–1005), who is frequently featured in popular culture. Originally a local shrine, Seimei Shrine became a tourist attraction for fans of the novel series Onmyōji (1986–) and the movie adaptation (2001). Since then, the shrine has branded itself by placing themed statues, which realize the legend of Abe no Seimei in material form, while also attracting religious and touristic practices. On the other hand, visitors also bring new meanings to the shrine and its objects. They understand the shrine through different kinds of interactions with the objects, through performances such as touching and remembering. However, the material objects, their interpretation and performances are also an arena of conflict and contestation, as different actors become involved through tourism. This case study shows how religion and tourism are intertwined in the late-modern consumer society, which affects both the ways in which the shrine presents and reinvents itself, as well as how visitors understand and perform within the shrine.

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