The visual text: Bibliographic codes as pragmatic markers on a manuscript page

dc.contributor.authorRogos-Hebda, Justyna
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-31T08:07:02Z
dc.date.available2017-08-31T08:07:02Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the dynamics of the textual-visual interface of a medieval manuscript page within the frameworks of historical pragmatics and pragmaphilological approaches to the study of historical texts. Whilst the former focuses on the contexts in which historical utterances, manifested as texts, occur (Jacobs & Jucker 1995: 11), the latter involves a context-based perspective in the study of individual historical texts (Jucker 2000: 91). Combining the two approaches allows for a more comprehensive study of the “visual text” (cf. Machan 2011) than has been possible for paleographic, codicological, or linguistic analyses of medieval manuscripts. The present paper adopts the “pragmatics-on-the-page” approach (cf. Carroll et al. 2013, Peikola et al. 2014) in its analysis of bibliographic codes in British Library Royal MS 18 D II, which contains the texts of Lydgate’s Troy Book and Siege of Thebes. Such visual elements of the manuscript page as mise en page, ink colour, as well as type and size of script will be examined as pragmatic markers, functioning on three levels of meaning: textual, interactional, and metalinguistic (cf. Erman 2001, Carroll et al. 2013), and providing (visual) contexts for interpreting the linguistic message of the text.pl_PL
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper is based on the author’s post-doctoral project “Latin abbreviations in Middle English literary manuscripts: evolution of forms and functions” (UMO-2012/05/B/HS2/03996), supported by Polish National Science Centre.pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 51.3(2016), pp. 37-44pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn0081-6272
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/19259
dc.language.isoengpl_PL
dc.publisherAdam Mickiewicz Universitypl_PL
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl_PL
dc.subjectvisual pragmaticspl_PL
dc.subjectMiddle English manuscriptpl_PL
dc.subjectpragmatics of the pagepl_PL
dc.subjectmise en pagepl_PL
dc.titleThe visual text: Bibliographic codes as pragmatic markers on a manuscript pagepl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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