Department of the History of English — News
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Prof. Matylda Włodarczyk’s talk on visual pragmatics
On June 3rd Prof. Matylda Włodarczyk gave a talk on Visual pragmatics from local to global: Specialised discourses (17th-19th century) in the Dahlem Lecture Series, at FU Berlin. Prof. Włodarczyk was invited by the Research Group for Historical Linguistics led by Prof. Horst Simon.
4.06.2025 -
New publication: “Abbreviating Middle English: scribal practices, visual texts and medieval multimodalities” by Justyna Rogos-Hebda
In “Abbreviating Middle English: scribal practices, visual texts and medieval multimodalities” (The New Middle Ages Series) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) Justyna Rogos-Hebda examines how abbreviation symbols helped create linguistic and cultural meanings of texts before print and why hypertextuality, multimodality and interactivity can be useful interpretative lenses for manuscript texts.
24.02.2025