Himna smiđr : the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor "God is the maker of heaven" in the old Icelandic language and literature as a marker of Christianization in Iceland
The following article constitutes an analysis of the civilizing process of Christianization of medieval Iceland on a mental and linguistic micro-scale in the theoretical perspective of historical cognitive linguistics. According to the cognitive theory of language, language is isomorphic to mentalit...
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ftunivsilesia:oai:rebus.us.edu.pl:20.500.12128/20891 2023-05-15T16:46:26+02:00 Himna smiđr : the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor "God is the maker of heaven" in the old Icelandic language and literature as a marker of Christianization in Iceland Bartusik, Grzegorz 2020 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/20891 en eng Scandia. Journal of Medieval Norse Studies Scandia. Journal of Medieval Norse Studies, No. 3 (2020), s. 64-101 2595-9107 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/20891 Uznanie autorstwa 3.0 Polska http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC-BY Old Icelandic literature Biblical Hebrew Latin Old Icelandic conceptual metaphors info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftunivsilesia https://doi.org/20.500.12128/20891 2022-12-31T20:15:17Z The following article constitutes an analysis of the civilizing process of Christianization of medieval Iceland on a mental and linguistic micro-scale in the theoretical perspective of historical cognitive linguistics. According to the cognitive theory of language, language is isomorphic to mentality. A conceptual metaphor may be perceived as the smallest element in a conceptual system, the smallest meaningful unit of mentality inherent in language. When mentality in a society shifts, it is expressed in its cognitive system — that is, by the presence of cognitive structures typical of foreign culture and their dissemination in the indigenous conceptual system. In the case of medieval Scandinavia undergoing Christianization and Europeanization in the 11th and 12th centuries, we can observe this phenomenon in the interference of the metaphorical structures of Ancient Hebrew, Latin, and Germanic provenance in Old Icelandic language. I analyze the process of Christianization of medieval Iceland as a conceptual change, on the basis of the cultural transfer, resemantization and dissemination of the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor GOD is the MAKER of HEAVEN in the language and literature of medieval Iceland. It contributed, together with other conceptual metaphors of Ancient Hebrew and Latin provenance, to the gradual change of mindset of medieval Icelanders towards Christianity, cognitive structure by structure, metaphor by metaphor, until they turned into Christians and Europeans by virtue of the conceptual, psycholinguistic, change. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland The Repository of the University of Silesia (RE-BUŚ) |
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The following article constitutes an analysis of the civilizing process of Christianization of medieval Iceland on a mental and linguistic micro-scale in the theoretical perspective of historical cognitive linguistics. According to the cognitive theory of language, language is isomorphic to mentality. A conceptual metaphor may be perceived as the smallest element in a conceptual system, the smallest meaningful unit of mentality inherent in language. When mentality in a society shifts, it is expressed in its cognitive system — that is, by the presence of cognitive structures typical of foreign culture and their dissemination in the indigenous conceptual system. In the case of medieval Scandinavia undergoing Christianization and Europeanization in the 11th and 12th centuries, we can observe this phenomenon in the interference of the metaphorical structures of Ancient Hebrew, Latin, and Germanic provenance in Old Icelandic language. I analyze the process of Christianization of medieval Iceland as a conceptual change, on the basis of the cultural transfer, resemantization and dissemination of the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor GOD is the MAKER of HEAVEN in the language and literature of medieval Iceland. It contributed, together with other conceptual metaphors of Ancient Hebrew and Latin provenance, to the gradual change of mindset of medieval Icelanders towards Christianity, cognitive structure by structure, metaphor by metaphor, until they turned into Christians and Europeans by virtue of the conceptual, psycholinguistic, change. |
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Himna smiđr : the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor "God is the maker of heaven" in the old Icelandic language and literature as a marker of Christianization in Iceland |
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Himna smiđr : the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor "God is the maker of heaven" in the old Icelandic language and literature as a marker of Christianization in Iceland |
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Himna smiđr : the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor "God is the maker of heaven" in the old Icelandic language and literature as a marker of Christianization in Iceland |
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Himna smiđr : the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor "God is the maker of heaven" in the old Icelandic language and literature as a marker of Christianization in Iceland |
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Himna smiđr : the ancient Hebrew conceptual metaphor "God is the maker of heaven" in the old Icelandic language and literature as a marker of Christianization in Iceland |
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himna smiđr : the ancient hebrew conceptual metaphor "god is the maker of heaven" in the old icelandic language and literature as a marker of christianization in iceland |
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