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Steele, Felicia Jean.

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AElfric's "Catholic Homilies": Discourse and the construction of authority.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	AElfric's "Catholic Homilies": Discourse and the construction of authority./
Author:	Steele, Felicia Jean.
Description:	289 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-03, Section: A, page: 1010.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3008453
ISBN:	9780493182612

AElfric's "Catholic Homilies": Discourse and the construction of authority.
Steele, Felicia Jean.

AElfric's "Catholic Homilies": Discourse and the construction of authority. - 289 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-03, Section: A, page: 1010.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

This dissertation explores the relationship between discourse pragmatics, as codified in rhetorical and liturgical texts, and grammaticalization. The development of the hortatory auxiliary uton, 'let us,' in Old English, exemplifies this relationship. AElfric of Eynsham (fl. 1000 AD, harnesses the uton-construction to delineate rhetorical boundaries in his texts. AElfric developed technique out of the linguistic resources available to Anglo-Saxon preachers. This dissertation describes Old English preaching and liturgical practices, considers the rhetorical practices of pre-Benedictine reform preachers as recorded in the Vercelli and Blickling Homilies, tracks AElfric and Wulfstan's rhetorical practices and use of the uton construction, and illuminates the final stages in uton's grammaticalization before replacement by let us.

ISBN: 9780493182612Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

AElfric's "Catholic Homilies": Discourse and the construction of authority.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the relationship between discourse pragmatics, as codified in rhetorical and liturgical texts, and grammaticalization. The development of the hortatory auxiliary uton, 'let us,' in Old English, exemplifies this relationship. AElfric of Eynsham (fl. 1000 AD, harnesses the uton-construction to delineate rhetorical boundaries in his texts. AElfric developed technique out of the linguistic resources available to Anglo-Saxon preachers. This dissertation describes Old English preaching and liturgical practices, considers the rhetorical practices of pre-Benedictine reform preachers as recorded in the Vercelli and Blickling Homilies, tracks AElfric and Wulfstan's rhetorical practices and use of the uton construction, and illuminates the final stages in uton's grammaticalization before replacement by let us.
520 $a The uton construction develops from an early Old English witan verb, meaning 'to know' or 'to go'. The construction translates Latin hortatory subjunctives in Old English glosses. The evidence from the Vercelli and Blickling Homilies extends the grammatical description of uton previously held by syntacticians, revealing that uton may be negated. This chapter also reveals that negative uton appears to be conditioned by discourse.
520 $a Chapter three addresses AElfric's homilies. Although Latin, primarily Carolingian, works underlie AElfric's sermons, the Catholic Homilies are independent compositions, not anthologized translations. AElfric developed a style that used vernacular linguistic resources for maximal effect. AElfric calls attention to his Latin sources with the deliberate use of the first-person hortatory subjunctive, uton, 'let us,' in internal and concluding exhortations.
520 $a Wulfstan's hortatory style provides a contrast to AElfric's more measured rhetoric. Chapter four demonstrates that Wulfstan's sermons reflect a more grammaticalized auxiliary with narrower usage parameters. Wulfstan reinforces the uton-construction with other hortatory formulae, indicating that uton had begun to experience semantic bleaching.
520 $a Twelfth century homilies, discussed in chapter five, show the phonological weakening of uton. Occasional slavish copying suggests that uton had lost its verbal force by the twelfth century. Uton appears only in formulaic contexts, such as closing exhortations. Most all the texts that use uton alone for hortatory force from the twelfth and thirteenth century are southern texts, where speakers would have been unaffected by Scandinavian languages. To eliminate ambiguity, speakers used alternative linguistic resources for exhortation, particularly 'let us.' Chapter five argues that 'let us,' comes not from the second person imperative, but from Norse impersonal constructions. Let us represents an example of cross-linguistic suppletion; speakers adopted a Norse construction and approximated it to English phonology and syntax in order to resolve an ambiguity in their own language
520 $a This dissertation describes discourse pragmatics as a source and support for grammaticalization. It also demonstrates that linguistic change need not take place only on the periphery of language, in the realms of vocabulary, but also at its functional core.
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