Mark Amsler

Narrating and Focalizing the Book of Margery Kempe

Neuphilogische Mitteilungen, 2024

The Medieval Life of Language, Chapter 1

The Medieval Life of Language, 2021

The Medieval Life of Language The Knowledge Communities series focuses on innovative scholarship ... more The Medieval Life of Language The Knowledge Communities series focuses on innovative scholarship in the areas of intellectual history and the history of ideas, particularly as they relate to the communication of knowledge within and among diverse scholarly, literary, religious and social communities across Western Europe. Interdisciplinary in nature, the series especially encourages new methodological outlooks that draw on the disciplines of philosophy, theology, musicology, anthropology, paleography and codicology. Knowledge Communities addresses the myriad ways in which knowledge was expressed and inculcated, not only focusing upon scholarly texts from the period, but also emphasizing the importance of emotions, ritual, performance, images and gestures as modalities that communicate and acculturate ideas. Knowledge Communities publishes cutting-edge work that explores the nexus between ideas, communities and individuals in medieval and early modern Europe.

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Touch and the Sensible in the <i>Play of Mary Magdalene</i>

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 2023

Genre and Code in Abelard's Historia calamitatum

Assays, 1981

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From Standard Latin to Standard English

Language Variation in North America: Research and Teaching, 1993

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Amsler History of Linguistics, Standard Latin, and Pedagogy

History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages. Ed. Vivien Law. , 1993

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Amsler Memory Text Space in Medieval London

Studies in European Urban History:1100-1800, 2017

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Jakobson's Dominant, Hyperliteracies, and Structures of History

The Prague School and Theories of Structure, ed. Martin Procházka, Markéta Malá, Pavlína Šaldová. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2009

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Linguistic Theory in the Late Middle Ages

Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Ed. Keith Brown et al. Oxford: Elsevier. , 2005

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The theory of Latin etymologia in the early Middle Ages : from Donatus to Isidore /

3. When a map, drawing or chart, etc., was part of the material being photographed the photograph... more 3. When a map, drawing or chart, etc., was part of the material being photographed the photographer followed a definite method in "sectioning" the material. It is customary to begin photoing at the upper left hand corner of a large sheet and to continue photoing from left to right in equal sections with a small overlap. If necessary, sectioning is continued again — beginning below the first row and continuing on until complete.

(G. E. L.) Owen Language and logos: studies in ancient Greek philosophy presented to G. E. L. Owen. Ed. M. Schofield and M. C. Nussbaum. Cambridge etc.: University Press. 1982. Pp. xiii + 359. £27.50

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1983

The essays in this volume were written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of GEL Owen, who by his... more

The Medieval Life of Language

Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Jul 12, 2021

The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex hi... more The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication is revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon’s sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer’s poetry, inquisitors’ accounts of heretic speech, and life-writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century. by John E. Joseph, Nigel Love & Talbot J. Taylor

Historiographia Linguistica, Dec 31, 2002

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The Medieval Life of Language

The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex hi... more The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication is revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon’s sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer’s poetry, inquisitors’ accounts of heretic speech, and life-writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.

Multilingualism in Medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520): Sources and Analysis ed. by Judith A. Jefferson and Ad Putter

Parergon, 2013

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2.1 Etymology and Technical Grammar from Donatus to Priscian

The Emergence of Linguistic Thinking within Premodern Cultural Practices

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 2023

1.1 Etymological Strategies of Intervention

1.2 Varro's Etymological Model

3. Isidore of Seville and the Etymological Encyclopedia

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