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LANGUAGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY

LANGUAGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY. LECTURE 4 ALAIN CHARTIER, LE QUADRILOGUE INVECTIF. Family Tree. Hundred Years’ War. 1337 Beginning of war 1340 Battle of Sluys 1346 Battle of Crecy 1356 Battle of Poitiers 1415 Battle of Agincourt. Bourgeois de Paris.

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LANGUAGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY

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  1. LANGUAGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY LECTURE 4 ALAIN CHARTIER, LE QUADRILOGUE INVECTIF

  2. Family Tree

  3. Hundred Years’ War 1337 Beginning of war 1340 Battle of Sluys 1346 Battle of Crecy 1356 Battle of Poitiers 1415 Battle of Agincourt

  4. Bourgeois de Paris Jour et nuit crioient hommes, femmes, petits enfants: “Helas, je meurs de froit!” et l’autre “Je meurs de fain”.

  5. Bourgeois de Paris En ce temps estoient les loups si affames qu’ils desterroient a leurs pattes les corps des gens … car partout ou on alloit, on trouvoit des morts et aux champs et aux villes, de la grant povrete, du cher temps et de la famine qu’ils souffroient, pour la maudite guerre qui tousjours croissoit de jour en jour.

  6. Latin loan-words • Somptueusement < Lat. sumptuosus, 14th c. • Habitacions < Lat. habitatio, c. 1350 • Negligence < Lat. negligentia, c. 1250 • Refection < Lat. refectio, c. 1410 • Edifice < Lat. aedificium, c. 1250

  7. LEXICON=VOCABULARY

  8. Etymologically correct forms

  9. HIGH STATUS Used for: • Religion • Education • Law and Administration • “Literature”

  10. LATINATE VOCABULARY SEIGNEURIEUX EDIFICE V. MAISON ROYALE

  11. LATINATE VOCABULARY 1408 1250 SEIGNEURIEUX EDIFICE V. MAISON ROYALE

  12. LINGUISTIC VOCABULARY • DOUBLET • PLEONASM

  13. DOUBLETS • Entailleures, paintures, armoeries et menueries • Desmentoit et decrevoit • Plaintif et langoureux

  14. NON-ETYMOLOGICAL LETTERS Chartier Latin etymons • Haultes altus • Default defallere • Dessoubz desubtus • Daulphins *dalfinus • Principaulx principalis

  15. CRITICAL VOCABULARY PARATAXIS V. HYPOTAXIS

  16. CRITICAL VOCABULARY PARATAXIS V. HYPOTAXIS = = SIMPLE COMPLEX DECLARATIVE SENTENCES SENTENCES

  17. PARATACTIC SENTENCE I got up early, I went to work, I had a report to write.

  18. HYPOTACTIC SENTENCE I got up early in order to go to work, because I had a report to write

  19. HIGH-STATUS LANGUAGE • ACCEPTANCE • CODIFICATION • ELABORATION

  20. HIGH-STATUS LANGUAGE WHAT WE SHALL NOW BE SEEING, IN THE RENAISSANCE AND LATER, IS: CODIFICATION ELABORATION

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