A Constructionist and Corpus-Based Approach to Formulas in Old English Poetry

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages9070237" target="_blank" >10.3390/languages9070237</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Constructionist and Corpus-Based Approach to Formulas in Old English Poetry

Original language description

This paper explores a constructionist and corpus-based approach to Old English formulaic language through an analysis of the “maþelode system” of speech introductions. The analysis is performed on a section of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry, comprising the poems Beowulf, Battle of Brunanburh, and Exodus. The results show that most instances of the maþelode system belong to a well-attested construction continuum, structured by the widespread Old English (and ultimately Germanic) poetic devices of variation and kenning. This continuum ranges from more fixed repetitions that exclusively involve the verb maþelian to more schematic patterns that are also attested by other speech verbs, by verbs of giving, as well as by a number of further verbs of various semantic types. The particularly high frequency of this pattern with speech verbs and verbs of giving matches the prominent role, highlighted by previous studies, of both word-exchange and gift-exchange within Old English heroic ideology, and suggests that these formulaic patterns served the purpose to characterize the protagonists of speech or giving events as heroic and/or lordly figures. © 2024 by the authors.

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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ISSN

2226-471X

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

1-21

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85199902313