Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík: cultivation of language in his early writings (1727–1737)
This article discusses Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík (1705–1779), a prominent spokesperson for purism and language cultivation in eighteenth-century Iceland. Jón’s attitude towards his mother tongue is investigated here by discussing several representative texts that he wrote: his youthful translation...
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ftutrentoiris:oai:iris.unitn.it:11572/297269 2024-02-11T10:05:03+01:00 Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík: cultivation of language in his early writings (1727–1737) Tarsi M. Tarsi, M. 2017 STAMPA http://hdl.handle.net/11572/297269 https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2018.1492807 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17597536.2018.1492807 eng eng country:GBR info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000440970000003 volume:60 issue:3 firstpage:180 lastpage:189 numberofpages:10 journal:LANGUAGE AND HISTORY http://hdl.handle.net/11572/297269 doi:10.1080/17597536.2018.1492807 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85051102820 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17597536.2018.1492807 eighteenth-century linguistic history of the Icelandic language Icelandic Language cultivation language purism info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2017 ftutrentoiris https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2018.1492807 2024-01-23T23:11:19Z This article discusses Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík (1705–1779), a prominent spokesperson for purism and language cultivation in eighteenth-century Iceland. Jón’s attitude towards his mother tongue is investigated here by discussing several representative texts that he wrote: his youthful translation of Barthold Feind’s Cosmographia (1727, AM 958 4to); a Latin lecture on the Icelandic language (written no later than 1730, AM 1013 4to, ff. 68r–76r); the introduction to Jón’s orthographic treatise (ca. 1733, AM 435 fol.); a purist wordlist (ca. 1736, AM 1013 4to, f. 37v); and Hagþenkir, a treatise on education (1737, JS 83 fol.). After a short introduction, there follows a brief overview of Jón Ólafsson’s life, learning, and scholarly publications. The next section examines Jón’s attitude towards his mother tongue as reflected in the aforementioned texts. In the concluding section, the issue of language cultivation in - eighteenth-century Iceland is addressed. In particular, it is argued that in Jón’s foster father, Páll Vídalín (1667–1727), there exists a link between Jón Ólafsson and the ‘father’ of Icelandic purism, Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned (1568–1648). Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Università degli Studi di Trento: CINECA IRIS Grunnavík ENVELOPE(-22.882,-22.882,66.245,66.245) Language & History 60 3 180 189 |
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This article discusses Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík (1705–1779), a prominent spokesperson for purism and language cultivation in eighteenth-century Iceland. Jón’s attitude towards his mother tongue is investigated here by discussing several representative texts that he wrote: his youthful translation of Barthold Feind’s Cosmographia (1727, AM 958 4to); a Latin lecture on the Icelandic language (written no later than 1730, AM 1013 4to, ff. 68r–76r); the introduction to Jón’s orthographic treatise (ca. 1733, AM 435 fol.); a purist wordlist (ca. 1736, AM 1013 4to, f. 37v); and Hagþenkir, a treatise on education (1737, JS 83 fol.). After a short introduction, there follows a brief overview of Jón Ólafsson’s life, learning, and scholarly publications. The next section examines Jón’s attitude towards his mother tongue as reflected in the aforementioned texts. In the concluding section, the issue of language cultivation in - eighteenth-century Iceland is addressed. In particular, it is argued that in Jón’s foster father, Páll Vídalín (1667–1727), there exists a link between Jón Ólafsson and the ‘father’ of Icelandic purism, Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned (1568–1648). |
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