Stephen Pax Leonard
Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland
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Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland
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Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland offers a much-needed exploration into the problem of linguistic and social identity construction in early Iceland, and is a fascinating account of an under examined historical-linguistic story that will spur further research and discussion amongst researchers.
Engages with recent theoretical research on dialect formation and language isolation Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of dialect development, putting forward a persuasive hypothesis accounting for the lack of dialect variation in Icelandic Uses a unique,…mehr
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Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland offers a much-needed exploration into the problem of linguistic and social identity construction in early Iceland, and is a fascinating account of an under examined historical-linguistic story that will spur further research and discussion amongst researchers.
Engages with recent theoretical research on dialect formation and language isolation
Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of dialect development, putting forward a persuasive hypothesis accounting for the lack of dialect variation in Icelandic
Uses a unique, multi-disciplinary approach that brings together material from a wide range of fields for a comprehensive examination of the role of language in identity construction
Opens up opportunities for further research, especially for those concerned with language and identity in Iceland today, where there is for the first time sociolinguistic variation
Engages with recent theoretical research on dialect formation and language isolation
Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of dialect development, putting forward a persuasive hypothesis accounting for the lack of dialect variation in Icelandic
Uses a unique, multi-disciplinary approach that brings together material from a wide range of fields for a comprehensive examination of the role of language in identity construction
Opens up opportunities for further research, especially for those concerned with language and identity in Iceland today, where there is for the first time sociolinguistic variation
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- Publications of the Philological Society .
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 198
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 10mm
- Gewicht: 246g
- ISBN-13: 9781118294963
- ISBN-10: 1118294963
- Artikelnr.: 35453942
- Publications of the Philological Society .
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 198
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 10mm
- Gewicht: 246g
- ISBN-13: 9781118294963
- ISBN-10: 1118294963
- Artikelnr.: 35453942
Stephen Pax Leonard is a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a Research Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Educated at the University of Oxford, he studied modern and ancient languages before developing interests in linguistic and existential anthropology. He has carried out both linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. More recently, he spent a year living with the Inugguit of north-west Greenland who live in the northern-most permanently inhabited settlement in the world, documenting their vulnerable minority language and spoken traditions.
1 Introduction 1.1 Aims of the present study 1.2 Organisation of study 1.3
The settlement of Iceland 1.4 The establishment of social structures 1.5
The language of the Icelanders 1.6 Sources 1.6.1 Historical texts 1.6.2
Religious works 1.6.3 Law codes 1.6.4 Grammatical Treatises 1.6.5 Poetry
1.6.6 Saga material 2 Language and identity: theoretical considerations 2.1
Introduction 2.2 Socio-historical linguistics and sociolinguistic theory
2.3 Language change and norms 2.3.1 Intra-linguistic versus
extra-linguistic explanations of language change 2.4 Language and dialect
contact 2.4.1 Dialect levelling and koineisation 2.4.2 Markedness in tabula
rasa dialect-formation 2.5 Language and dialect isolation 2.5.1 'Drift' 2.6
Language development in tabula rasa societies 2.6.1 Language community
types (and settlement patterns) 2.6.2 A deterministic model versus social
factors 2.6.3 The Founder Principle and prestige 2.7 Identity: essentialism
versus constructivism 2.7.1 Personal identity and group membership 2.7.2
Place and identity 2.8 Language and identity 2.8.1 Accommodation and
networks 2.8.2 Accommodation Theory 2.8.3 Social network theory and
language change 2.8.4 Deixis, pronouns and identity 2.9 Conclusion 3
Norm-establishment in Iceland 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Norse dialectal
variation prior to the Settlement 3.2.1 The runic evidence 3.2.2 Runic
evidence and the spoken language 3.3 The settlers: geographic origins and
social mobility 3.3.1 The geographic origins of the settlers 3.3.2 Social
background and mobility of the settlers 3.3.3 The status of Norse and
Common Gaelic at the time of the Settlement 3.4 Dialect features in
Iceland, the Faroe Islands and south-west Norway 3.5 Iceland as a 'new
society' 3.5.1 Features of 'new societies' 3.6 Language development in
early Iceland 3.6.1 The 'mixture theory' 3.6.2 Dialect levelling in early
Iceland 3.6.3 The basis for koineisation 3.7 Establishment of a linguistic
norm in Iceland 3.7.1 Pre- and post-Settlement linguistic norms 3.7.2
Spoken norms and 'standardised' written languages 3.7.3 The establishment
of a norm: skaldic poetry (and the laws) 3.7.4 The establishment of a norm:
the role of the sagas 3.8 The homogeneity of Icelandic 3.8.1 Background
3.8.2 Factors explaining the homogeneity of Icelandic 3.9 Conclusion 4
Social structures in the lexicon 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Social identity and
Icelandic social structures 4.2.1 Emerging social structures and identities
4.2.2 Characteristics of Icelandic social structures: role of the law 4.2.3
The significance of assembly-attachment 4.3 Specific Icelandic social
structures 4.3.1 hreppr ('commune') 4.3.2 büar ('neighbours') 4.3.3 al?ingi
('General Assembly') and lögre¿tta ('Law Council') 4.3.4 go?ar
('chieftains') 4.4 Individual identity and Icelandic kinship structures
4.4.1 landnäm ('Settlement') and kinship structures 4.4.2 Kinship and
land-transfer 4.4.3 Genealogies and identity 4.4.4 Icelandic kinship
terminology: cousin terms 4.5 Conclusion 5 Perception and use of language
as an identity marker 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Icelanders' perceptions of
foreign languages 5.2.1 References to a foreign language 5.2.2 References
to Irish 5.3 A vernacular identity: dönsk tunga, norræna and its speakers
5.3.1 The dönsk tunga as an identity marker 5.3.2 norræna as an identity
marker 5.3.3 Norse dialectical variation and Anglo-Norse intelligibility
5.4 Grammatical variables as identity markers 5.4.1 Agreeing possessive
adjectives 5.4.2 Pronominal usage in the early Icelandic law codes 5.4.3
The 'they' 5.4.4 The 'we' 5.5 Spatial references: the issue of identity
5.5.1 Spatio-directional particles 5.5.2 Idiomatic use of spatial grammar
5.5.3 Semantics of orientation: the Norwegian system 5.5.4 Semantics of
orientation: the Quarter-based system 5.6 Conclusion 6 Conclusion
References Index
The settlement of Iceland 1.4 The establishment of social structures 1.5
The language of the Icelanders 1.6 Sources 1.6.1 Historical texts 1.6.2
Religious works 1.6.3 Law codes 1.6.4 Grammatical Treatises 1.6.5 Poetry
1.6.6 Saga material 2 Language and identity: theoretical considerations 2.1
Introduction 2.2 Socio-historical linguistics and sociolinguistic theory
2.3 Language change and norms 2.3.1 Intra-linguistic versus
extra-linguistic explanations of language change 2.4 Language and dialect
contact 2.4.1 Dialect levelling and koineisation 2.4.2 Markedness in tabula
rasa dialect-formation 2.5 Language and dialect isolation 2.5.1 'Drift' 2.6
Language development in tabula rasa societies 2.6.1 Language community
types (and settlement patterns) 2.6.2 A deterministic model versus social
factors 2.6.3 The Founder Principle and prestige 2.7 Identity: essentialism
versus constructivism 2.7.1 Personal identity and group membership 2.7.2
Place and identity 2.8 Language and identity 2.8.1 Accommodation and
networks 2.8.2 Accommodation Theory 2.8.3 Social network theory and
language change 2.8.4 Deixis, pronouns and identity 2.9 Conclusion 3
Norm-establishment in Iceland 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Norse dialectal
variation prior to the Settlement 3.2.1 The runic evidence 3.2.2 Runic
evidence and the spoken language 3.3 The settlers: geographic origins and
social mobility 3.3.1 The geographic origins of the settlers 3.3.2 Social
background and mobility of the settlers 3.3.3 The status of Norse and
Common Gaelic at the time of the Settlement 3.4 Dialect features in
Iceland, the Faroe Islands and south-west Norway 3.5 Iceland as a 'new
society' 3.5.1 Features of 'new societies' 3.6 Language development in
early Iceland 3.6.1 The 'mixture theory' 3.6.2 Dialect levelling in early
Iceland 3.6.3 The basis for koineisation 3.7 Establishment of a linguistic
norm in Iceland 3.7.1 Pre- and post-Settlement linguistic norms 3.7.2
Spoken norms and 'standardised' written languages 3.7.3 The establishment
of a norm: skaldic poetry (and the laws) 3.7.4 The establishment of a norm:
the role of the sagas 3.8 The homogeneity of Icelandic 3.8.1 Background
3.8.2 Factors explaining the homogeneity of Icelandic 3.9 Conclusion 4
Social structures in the lexicon 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Social identity and
Icelandic social structures 4.2.1 Emerging social structures and identities
4.2.2 Characteristics of Icelandic social structures: role of the law 4.2.3
The significance of assembly-attachment 4.3 Specific Icelandic social
structures 4.3.1 hreppr ('commune') 4.3.2 büar ('neighbours') 4.3.3 al?ingi
('General Assembly') and lögre¿tta ('Law Council') 4.3.4 go?ar
('chieftains') 4.4 Individual identity and Icelandic kinship structures
4.4.1 landnäm ('Settlement') and kinship structures 4.4.2 Kinship and
land-transfer 4.4.3 Genealogies and identity 4.4.4 Icelandic kinship
terminology: cousin terms 4.5 Conclusion 5 Perception and use of language
as an identity marker 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Icelanders' perceptions of
foreign languages 5.2.1 References to a foreign language 5.2.2 References
to Irish 5.3 A vernacular identity: dönsk tunga, norræna and its speakers
5.3.1 The dönsk tunga as an identity marker 5.3.2 norræna as an identity
marker 5.3.3 Norse dialectical variation and Anglo-Norse intelligibility
5.4 Grammatical variables as identity markers 5.4.1 Agreeing possessive
adjectives 5.4.2 Pronominal usage in the early Icelandic law codes 5.4.3
The 'they' 5.4.4 The 'we' 5.5 Spatial references: the issue of identity
5.5.1 Spatio-directional particles 5.5.2 Idiomatic use of spatial grammar
5.5.3 Semantics of orientation: the Norwegian system 5.5.4 Semantics of
orientation: the Quarter-based system 5.6 Conclusion 6 Conclusion
References Index
1 Introduction 1.1 Aims of the present study 1.2 Organisation of study 1.3
The settlement of Iceland 1.4 The establishment of social structures 1.5
The language of the Icelanders 1.6 Sources 1.6.1 Historical texts 1.6.2
Religious works 1.6.3 Law codes 1.6.4 Grammatical Treatises 1.6.5 Poetry
1.6.6 Saga material 2 Language and identity: theoretical considerations 2.1
Introduction 2.2 Socio-historical linguistics and sociolinguistic theory
2.3 Language change and norms 2.3.1 Intra-linguistic versus
extra-linguistic explanations of language change 2.4 Language and dialect
contact 2.4.1 Dialect levelling and koineisation 2.4.2 Markedness in tabula
rasa dialect-formation 2.5 Language and dialect isolation 2.5.1 'Drift' 2.6
Language development in tabula rasa societies 2.6.1 Language community
types (and settlement patterns) 2.6.2 A deterministic model versus social
factors 2.6.3 The Founder Principle and prestige 2.7 Identity: essentialism
versus constructivism 2.7.1 Personal identity and group membership 2.7.2
Place and identity 2.8 Language and identity 2.8.1 Accommodation and
networks 2.8.2 Accommodation Theory 2.8.3 Social network theory and
language change 2.8.4 Deixis, pronouns and identity 2.9 Conclusion 3
Norm-establishment in Iceland 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Norse dialectal
variation prior to the Settlement 3.2.1 The runic evidence 3.2.2 Runic
evidence and the spoken language 3.3 The settlers: geographic origins and
social mobility 3.3.1 The geographic origins of the settlers 3.3.2 Social
background and mobility of the settlers 3.3.3 The status of Norse and
Common Gaelic at the time of the Settlement 3.4 Dialect features in
Iceland, the Faroe Islands and south-west Norway 3.5 Iceland as a 'new
society' 3.5.1 Features of 'new societies' 3.6 Language development in
early Iceland 3.6.1 The 'mixture theory' 3.6.2 Dialect levelling in early
Iceland 3.6.3 The basis for koineisation 3.7 Establishment of a linguistic
norm in Iceland 3.7.1 Pre- and post-Settlement linguistic norms 3.7.2
Spoken norms and 'standardised' written languages 3.7.3 The establishment
of a norm: skaldic poetry (and the laws) 3.7.4 The establishment of a norm:
the role of the sagas 3.8 The homogeneity of Icelandic 3.8.1 Background
3.8.2 Factors explaining the homogeneity of Icelandic 3.9 Conclusion 4
Social structures in the lexicon 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Social identity and
Icelandic social structures 4.2.1 Emerging social structures and identities
4.2.2 Characteristics of Icelandic social structures: role of the law 4.2.3
The significance of assembly-attachment 4.3 Specific Icelandic social
structures 4.3.1 hreppr ('commune') 4.3.2 büar ('neighbours') 4.3.3 al?ingi
('General Assembly') and lögre¿tta ('Law Council') 4.3.4 go?ar
('chieftains') 4.4 Individual identity and Icelandic kinship structures
4.4.1 landnäm ('Settlement') and kinship structures 4.4.2 Kinship and
land-transfer 4.4.3 Genealogies and identity 4.4.4 Icelandic kinship
terminology: cousin terms 4.5 Conclusion 5 Perception and use of language
as an identity marker 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Icelanders' perceptions of
foreign languages 5.2.1 References to a foreign language 5.2.2 References
to Irish 5.3 A vernacular identity: dönsk tunga, norræna and its speakers
5.3.1 The dönsk tunga as an identity marker 5.3.2 norræna as an identity
marker 5.3.3 Norse dialectical variation and Anglo-Norse intelligibility
5.4 Grammatical variables as identity markers 5.4.1 Agreeing possessive
adjectives 5.4.2 Pronominal usage in the early Icelandic law codes 5.4.3
The 'they' 5.4.4 The 'we' 5.5 Spatial references: the issue of identity
5.5.1 Spatio-directional particles 5.5.2 Idiomatic use of spatial grammar
5.5.3 Semantics of orientation: the Norwegian system 5.5.4 Semantics of
orientation: the Quarter-based system 5.6 Conclusion 6 Conclusion
References Index
The settlement of Iceland 1.4 The establishment of social structures 1.5
The language of the Icelanders 1.6 Sources 1.6.1 Historical texts 1.6.2
Religious works 1.6.3 Law codes 1.6.4 Grammatical Treatises 1.6.5 Poetry
1.6.6 Saga material 2 Language and identity: theoretical considerations 2.1
Introduction 2.2 Socio-historical linguistics and sociolinguistic theory
2.3 Language change and norms 2.3.1 Intra-linguistic versus
extra-linguistic explanations of language change 2.4 Language and dialect
contact 2.4.1 Dialect levelling and koineisation 2.4.2 Markedness in tabula
rasa dialect-formation 2.5 Language and dialect isolation 2.5.1 'Drift' 2.6
Language development in tabula rasa societies 2.6.1 Language community
types (and settlement patterns) 2.6.2 A deterministic model versus social
factors 2.6.3 The Founder Principle and prestige 2.7 Identity: essentialism
versus constructivism 2.7.1 Personal identity and group membership 2.7.2
Place and identity 2.8 Language and identity 2.8.1 Accommodation and
networks 2.8.2 Accommodation Theory 2.8.3 Social network theory and
language change 2.8.4 Deixis, pronouns and identity 2.9 Conclusion 3
Norm-establishment in Iceland 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Norse dialectal
variation prior to the Settlement 3.2.1 The runic evidence 3.2.2 Runic
evidence and the spoken language 3.3 The settlers: geographic origins and
social mobility 3.3.1 The geographic origins of the settlers 3.3.2 Social
background and mobility of the settlers 3.3.3 The status of Norse and
Common Gaelic at the time of the Settlement 3.4 Dialect features in
Iceland, the Faroe Islands and south-west Norway 3.5 Iceland as a 'new
society' 3.5.1 Features of 'new societies' 3.6 Language development in
early Iceland 3.6.1 The 'mixture theory' 3.6.2 Dialect levelling in early
Iceland 3.6.3 The basis for koineisation 3.7 Establishment of a linguistic
norm in Iceland 3.7.1 Pre- and post-Settlement linguistic norms 3.7.2
Spoken norms and 'standardised' written languages 3.7.3 The establishment
of a norm: skaldic poetry (and the laws) 3.7.4 The establishment of a norm:
the role of the sagas 3.8 The homogeneity of Icelandic 3.8.1 Background
3.8.2 Factors explaining the homogeneity of Icelandic 3.9 Conclusion 4
Social structures in the lexicon 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Social identity and
Icelandic social structures 4.2.1 Emerging social structures and identities
4.2.2 Characteristics of Icelandic social structures: role of the law 4.2.3
The significance of assembly-attachment 4.3 Specific Icelandic social
structures 4.3.1 hreppr ('commune') 4.3.2 büar ('neighbours') 4.3.3 al?ingi
('General Assembly') and lögre¿tta ('Law Council') 4.3.4 go?ar
('chieftains') 4.4 Individual identity and Icelandic kinship structures
4.4.1 landnäm ('Settlement') and kinship structures 4.4.2 Kinship and
land-transfer 4.4.3 Genealogies and identity 4.4.4 Icelandic kinship
terminology: cousin terms 4.5 Conclusion 5 Perception and use of language
as an identity marker 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Icelanders' perceptions of
foreign languages 5.2.1 References to a foreign language 5.2.2 References
to Irish 5.3 A vernacular identity: dönsk tunga, norræna and its speakers
5.3.1 The dönsk tunga as an identity marker 5.3.2 norræna as an identity
marker 5.3.3 Norse dialectical variation and Anglo-Norse intelligibility
5.4 Grammatical variables as identity markers 5.4.1 Agreeing possessive
adjectives 5.4.2 Pronominal usage in the early Icelandic law codes 5.4.3
The 'they' 5.4.4 The 'we' 5.5 Spatial references: the issue of identity
5.5.1 Spatio-directional particles 5.5.2 Idiomatic use of spatial grammar
5.5.3 Semantics of orientation: the Norwegian system 5.5.4 Semantics of
orientation: the Quarter-based system 5.6 Conclusion 6 Conclusion
References Index