Spelling Identities
Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages
Edited by Oliver M. Traxel Edited by Klaus Johan Myrvoll
Hardback (Published)
(November 2024)
ISBN: 9783752006896
6.69 x 9.49 inches
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This volume contains a selection of papers given at the 2nd Sym posium on Linguistic Identities: Spelling, Writing and Identity, held on 29 and 30 November 2021 at the University of Stavanger, Norway. It also features two specifically commissioned contributions. The articles show how identity is expressed by linguistic means with particular regard to orthographic conventions. The focus is on English, Icelandic and Norwegian as well as constructed languages, and the time periods range from the early Middle Ages up to the present day. Some aspects covered include the spelling of names, the use of archaisms and the role of the intended audience.
Oliver M. Traxel is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. He has a PhD in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic from the University of Cambridge and habilitated in English Philology at the University of Münster. Before taking up the professorship in Norway he worked at various German universities, i.e. Darmstadt, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Munich, Münster, Saarbrücken and Würzburg. His main interests lie in English language history, medievalism and modern linguistics, and he has published widely on the representation of past language stages in the modern world. In 2023 he initiated the interdisciplinary MARRI project at Stavanger, which focuses on The Middle Ages in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Relevance, Reimagination, Inspiration.<br/><br/>Klaus Johan Myrvoll<br/>is Professor of Nordic Linguistics at the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavanger. He received his PhD degree in Old Norse Philology from the University of Oslo in 2015 for a thesis on skaldic metre and the chronological development of skaldic verse. His main research focus is on skaldic poetry, particularly on the role of poetry in saga literature, and Nordic language history, both with regard to the ancient languages and the development of Modern Norwegian (“Nynorsk”). He has also published on other topics, such as manuscript transmission, name studies, genealogy and runology.
- Edited by Oliver M. Traxel
- Edited by Klaus Johan Myrvoll
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