New Worlds for Old Words: the Impact of Cultured Borrowings on the Romance Languages and English
Colloquium, Monday 23 - Tuesday 24 September 2019, King's College London
Monday 23/9/19
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-10.00 Chris Pountain, opening of the Colloquium as a part of the Language Acts and Worldmaking Project & Catherine Boyle, Leader of the Project
10.00 -11.00 Key speaker: Steven Dworkin, University of Michigan; Latinisms as Lexical Replacements in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spanish
11.00-11.30 Carmen Varo Varo, Universidad de Cádiz; Vitalidad y neologicidad de la composición culta en la prensa escrita en español
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.45 Cosimo Burgassi, independent researcher / Elisa Guadagnini, Istituto Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, Florence: ‘Uncovering’ Lexical borrowings from Latin. Two Italian case studies
12.45-13.15 Bozena Wislocka Breit, Queen Mary, University of London; ‘Modern’ and ‘classical’ languages: a cultured distinction
13.15-14.15 Lunch break
14.15-14.45 Dora Mancheva, University of Geneva; Cuando la medicina daba noticias alegres: la versión inglesa de un tratado del Doctor Monardes
14.45-15.15 Isabel García Ortiz, Queen Mary, University of London; Apuntes sobre la integración de un cultismo médico: la historia de la voz síntoma
15.15-15.45 Carmen Rodríguez Caballero, Instituto de Educación Secundaria: Poeta Claudio Rodríguez, Zamora: Observa_acción. Comunica_ acción en el aula de secundaria. Legado clásico en la lengua castellana
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.30 Alessandro Carlucci, University of Bergen and Pembroke College, University of Oxford; The Impact of New Contacts on an Old Pattern. The Modifier-Modified Order in the Formation of Italian N+N Compounds
16.30-17.30 Key speaker: Dr. Ingmar Söhrman, Göteborgs Universitet: ‘Magic’, ‘witches’ and ‘magicians’ in a semantic and etymological perspective
17.45-18.15 Wine reception hosted by Instituto Cervantes London, 15-19 Devereux Court, Temple, London WC2R 3JJ
19.00-21.00 Dinner for Colloquium speakers at a local restaurant
Tuesday 24/9/19
09.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.30 Susana Guerrero Salazar, Universidad de Málaga: El uso del cultismo en la prensa deportiva española
10.30-11.30 Key speaker: Santiago del Rey Quesada, Universidad de Sevilla: El cultismo en los grupos léxicos paratácticos: tendencias, frecuencias, convergencias y divergencias en las traducciones romances medievales de los clásicos
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.15 Soledad Chávez Fajardo, Universidad de Chile: Renacimiento, renacimientos, préstamos, luces y traducciones: vía de entrada de cultismos
12.15-12.45 Chris Pountain, Queen Mary, University of London: Cultured borrowing of verbs: the case of the Spanish -ir conjugation
12.45-13.15 Janet DeCesaris, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Carla Marello, Università degli Studi di Torino: The Presence of Latin Expressions in Italian, Spanish and English Dictionaries: Convergence and Divergence
13.15-14.15 Lunch break
14.15-14.45 Inmaculada González Sopeña, Universidad de Granada: Sustituciones léxicas en los arabismos del reino de Granada (siglo XVI)
14.45-15.15 Rocío Díaz Bravo, Gaeel Vaamonde, Universidad de Granada: Learnèd borrowings and lexical diversity in the Retrato de la Loçana andaluza (Delicado, ¿1530?)
15.15-15.45 Daniel Waissbein, independent researcher: Beyond mere Spanish and mere English: Luis de Góngora and Thomas Browne
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.30 Julian Weiss, King’s College London: A new world for an old nation: the critical semantics of nação / nación in Early Modern Iberian worlds
16.30-17.30 Key speaker: Gloria Clavería, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: El cultismo a la luz de los diccionarios
17.30-18.00 Closing remarks and discussion
This conference is wheelchair accessible but for any queries concerning access please email languageacts@kcl.ac.uk and we'll be happy to help.
To download the conference in pdf format, click here. For further information about the programme, please email Dr Bozena Wislocka Breit, bozena.wislocka_breit@kcl.ac.uk