'French medieval corpora: including the diatopic and diastratic variation in French medieval linguistic studies - a methodologic approach' is the title of the seminar in the series Linguistics Circle Seminar Series that will be held on Wednesday 15 March 2017 at 12:00 in Room 108, Dar 臓u偶eppi Zahra (DGZ108), University of Malta Msida Campus. The speaker is Dominique Lagorgette from Universit茅 de Savoie-Mont Blanc.
Abstract
Medieval French studies developed linguistic approaches over the last century mostly in studying literary texts. Considering the rarity of data in Early Old French (9th-11th C.) and then the primacy of courtly literary texts until the 13th-14th C., a history of speech registers (diastratic variation) still remains to be written: how do we know if a word was felt as vulgar, acceptable or taboo? How do we measure the pragmatic force of transgressive speech? This paper will question the methodology necessary to such a research, i.e. the relevant corpora, theoretical frame and treatment of data.
