The Discourse of Power in Medieval Transylvania (11th – 14th Centuries): A Linguistic Approach
This paper examines, from a linguistic perspective, the discourse of power in medieval Transylvania (11th – 14th Centuries), as evinced in the most important corpus of documents of the era (Codex diplomaticus Transsylvaniae, Documenta Romaniae Historica. C. Transilvania, Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte der Deutschen in Siebenbürgen, etc.). The premises of my research are: (a) that the discourse of power should not be confined to its formal meanings, instead it carries a number of secondary meanings, no less authoritarian, which can only be inferred by means of a detailed semantic analysis; and (b) that the relationship between the semantic “centers” and “peripheries” reflects the relationship between the cultural and institutional “centers” and “peripheries”. To probe these hypotheses, my paper resorts to, in terms of methodology, the combination of cognitive linguistics (mainly George Lakoff and Dirk Geeraerts’s theories), which emphasizes the metaphorical dimension of the “ordinary” language, and Eugeniu Co
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2015-05
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Authors: | Terian, Simina |
Institutions: | International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences |
Subject: | Power | Middle Ages | Transylvania | Linguistics |
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Series: | Proceedings of International Academic Conferences. - ISSN 2336-5617. |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 15th International Academic Conference, May 2015, pages 1087-1087 Number 1003816 1 pages longpage |
Classification: | A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276225
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